The Beginnings of Natural History in America: An Address Delivered at the Sixth Anniversary Meeting of the Biological Society of WashingtonSociety, 1886 - 1 pages |
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... Thomas Harriott , the earliest English naturalist in America . II Harriott's Spanish and French predecessors and contemporaries . III . Garcilasso de la Vega and the biological lore of the native Americans . IV . Anglo - American ...
... Thomas Harriott , the earliest English naturalist in America . II Harriott's Spanish and French predecessors and contemporaries . III . Garcilasso de la Vega and the biological lore of the native Americans . IV . Anglo - American ...
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... THOMAS HARRIOTT -the first English man of science who crossed the Atlantic . name is familiar to few , save those who love the time - browned pages and quaint narrations of Hakluyt , Purchas , and Pinkerton ; yet Harriott was foremost ...
... THOMAS HARRIOTT -the first English man of science who crossed the Atlantic . name is familiar to few , save those who love the time - browned pages and quaint narrations of Hakluyt , Purchas , and Pinkerton ; yet Harriott was foremost ...
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... Thomas Harriot's Astronomical Pa- pers . " His observations on Halley's comet in 1607 are still re- ferred to as being of great importance . Zach pronounced him an eminent astronomer , both theoretical and practical . " He was the first ...
... Thomas Harriot's Astronomical Pa- pers . " His observations on Halley's comet in 1607 are still re- ferred to as being of great importance . Zach pronounced him an eminent astronomer , both theoretical and practical . " He was the first ...
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... THOMAS . A briefe and true report | of the new found land of Virginia | of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants . Discouered by the English Col- works relating to America , * and is full of ...
... THOMAS . A briefe and true report | of the new found land of Virginia | of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants . Discouered by the English Col- works relating to America , * and is full of ...
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... Thomas Hariot , seruant to the above named | Sir WALTER , a member of the Colony and there | im- ployed in discouering | CUM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO CAES . MATIS SPECIALI | Francoforti ad Monum | Typis Ioannis Wecheli , sumtibus vero ...
... Thomas Hariot , seruant to the above named | Sir WALTER , a member of the Colony and there | im- ployed in discouering | CUM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO CAES . MATIS SPECIALI | Francoforti ad Monum | Typis Ioannis Wecheli , sumtibus vero ...
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Page 65 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 91 - Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. Go, search with curious eye, for horned frogs, Mid the wild wastes of Louisianian bogs; Or, where Ohio rolls his turbid stream, Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy theme.
Page 105 - The wisdom of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works : those highly magnify him, whose judicious inquiry into his acts, and deliberate research into his creatures, return the duty of a devout and learned admiration.
Page 89 - Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on a footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.
Page 87 - An Essay Upon the Natural History of Whales, with a Particular Account of the Ambergris Found in the Spermaceti Whale,
Page 56 - Plumbs there are of 3 sorts. The red and white are like our hedge plumbs: but the other, which they call Putchamins, grow as high as a Palmeta. The fruit is like a medler; it is first greene, then yellow, and red when it is ripe: if it be not ripe it will drawe a mans mouth awrie with much torment; but when it is ripe, it is as delicious as an Apricock.
Page 89 - It is for such institutions as that over which you preside so worthily, sir, to do justice to our country, its productions, and its genius. It is the work to which the young men whom you are forming should lay their .hands. We have spent the prime of our lives in procuring them the precious blessing of liberty. Let them spend theirs in showing that it is the great parent of science and virtue; and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free...
Page 60 - The extensive bibliography of which Mr. Pilling has recently published advance sheets gives an excellent idea of the attention which American linguistics have since received. That very eminent colonial statesman, John Winthrop, the younger, the first Governor of Connecticut, [b. 1587, d. 1649], stood high in the esteem of English men of science, and was invited by the newly founded Royal Society, of which he was a fellow, " to take upon himself the charge of being the chief correspondent in the West,...
Page 56 - Mussascus, is a beast of the forme and nature of our water Rats, but many of them smell exceeding strongly of muske.
Page 103 - There are a priori reasons, therefore, for doubting the truth of all philosophies of the sciences which tacitly proceed upon the common notion that scientific knowledge and ordinary knowledge are separate ; instead of commencing, as they should, by affiliating the one...