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  1. "Good observers of nature"
    American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885
    Author: Gianquitto, Tina
    Published: c2007
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0820329193; 0820336556; 9780820329192; 9780820336558
    RVK Categories: AK 17830
    Subjects: NATURE / Essays; NATURE / Reference; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Ecotourism; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Botany; Literature; Natural history; Nature; Women botanists; Women naturalists; Geschichte; Literatur; Women naturalists; Women botanists; Natural history; Nature in literature; Botany in literature; Naturwissenschaftlerin
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 216 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-211) and index

    Introduction. The languages of nature : an overview -- Botany's beautiful arrangement : Almira Phelps and Enlightenment science -- The pressure of hidden causes : Margaret Fuller and Romantic science -- The noble designs of nature : Susan Fenimore Cooper, natural science, and the picturesque aesthetic -- Spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : Mary Treat and evolutionary science -- Epilogue. Human homes in nature's household : the emergence of a conservation ethic