Category: History - Other
The earliest known books on natural history, and particularly on zoology, the science of animals, were those written by the ancient Greeks. We are certain that still more ancient volumes once existed, for the Greek writers commonly referred to “the ancients,” very much as auth...
The earliest known books on natural history, and particularly on zoology, the science of animals, were those written by the ancient Greeks. We are certain that still more ancien...
2. CHAPTER II.Inasmuch as almost the entire learning of Europe for several centuries was under the protection and rule of the church, it is important that we examine in some detail the fate o...
3. CHAPTER III.The speculative writers were a heterogenous group of men, partly philosophers, partly naturalists, and partly of various other professions. They were, in the main, untrained in...
4. CHAPTER IV.One of the outstanding figures of zoology, and for that matter, of all natural science is Carl von Linne, more commonly known as Carolus Linnaeus[8]. For many years naturalists...
5. CHAPTER V.The outstanding figure of the entire history of evolution is Charles Darwin. Whether or not he deserves all of the prominence that has been given him is a question--a question t...
6. CHAPTER VI.The period between 1860 and 1900 was occupied largely by elaborations of the Darwinian conception of evolution, and arguments as to whether or not organic descent was a fact. In...