REN R205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John James Audubon, Carl Linnaeus, Ernst Haeckel
21 Sep 2016
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A history of the study of animals *remember the dates to the decade. Aristotle [c. 2300 years ago in ancient greece] Smart guy, but the important thing is he was just a guy. Embarrassing aspect of western history is that aristotle was considered infallible for well after he lived. He was a clergyman, lived in a small hamlet, spent his days wandering admiring the birds and the owers. Prototype book for nature writing as a literary genre. Many of his ideas about our place in nature and the way nature is have remained in uential ever since. Considered a scholar, not a scientist (the word hadn"t been coined yet) Wrote one of the rst important books on the subject of ecology. The word hadn"t been coined yet (ecology) This word was used before the term ecology was coined. Were trying to describe the ow of nature. The scala naturae (great chain of being)
