Continent of Curiosities
A Journey through Australian Natural History
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 11 September 2006
- ISBN 9780521866200
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 257x200x19 mm
- Weight 692 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 150 b/w illus. 32 colour illus. 0
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Short description:
This book follows the thread of individual natural history stories through the scientists of Museum Victoria.
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Collecting curiosities was a gentlemanly occupation for wealthy and educated 18th-century Europeans. Few creatures aroused more curiosity than those from Australia. But collections demand organisation, and classification itself reveals patterns to life that cannot be ignored. From a leisurely occupation, the science of biology was born. Cabinets de curiosites became national museums, with specimens from Australia playing an integral role in all kinds of biological debates. Australian museums now foster their own research and continue to provide major and sometimes unexpected perspectives to international scientific developments. Continent of Curiosities follows the thread of individual natural history stories through the scientists of one of Australia's oldest museums, Museum Victoria. Together, these stories weave a history of the development of biological science from an Australian perspective, with insights into the people and places that influence the way we see and understand the natural world around us.
' ... beautifully produced ...' Mammalian Biology
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Part I. Visions from the Old World - The Last Five Hundred Years: 1. Curious collections; 2. A beast named Su; 3. Local knowledge; Part II. Into the Forests - The Last 250,000 Years: 4. Water, water everywhere; 5. Forests of fire; 6. The mystery of the reappearing possums; Part III. From Fossils and Bones - The Last 250 Million Years: 7. The case of the missing mollusc; 8. Brainbox; 9. The ape case; Part IV. Visions of the New Worlds - The Last Four and a Half Billion Years: 10. Lines in the sea; 11. Shifting continents; 12. Is there life on Mars?; References and further reading.
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