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Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)

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Thi is a very well thought out, very well documented, very well written book on a subject that should have been far more carefully studied than it has been. Namely, over the last two hundred years the natural sciences have changed enormously - not just in their theoretical foundations but their methodologies as well. This book focuses on the life sciences, but as a geologist I can confirm that very, very similar things to what this book describes have also taken place in the earth sciences during the 20th century. No practicing natural scientist who wants to understand the changes in their science, well enough to keep up with them, should be without this book.

An audacious and engaging examination to the almost three-century-long tradition of natural history.

The Swedish scientist Linnaeus probably was modern botany's founder beginning during the Enlightenment. He truly was responsible for
the Collecting, Classifying and Interpreting Nature.

Paul Lawrence Farber outlines the History of Science in this concise
book and fortunately brings the reader to the Naturalist as
Generalist: Edward O. Wilson.

The Inrernational Year of Biodiversity is 2010 and we all should
consider where we are now and what the future may bring!

Natural History is fascinating and it means more to us than we
truly recognize.

Dag Stomberg
St. Andrews, Scotland