Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) Harriet Sigerman lay out strategies to preserve

lay out strategies to preserve the natural environment

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Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) Harriet Sigerman lay out strategies to preserveIn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesa period that marked the emergence of a global modernityeducated landowners, or gentlemen, dominated the development of British natural history, utilizing networks of trade and empire to inventory nature and understand events across the world. Specimens, ranging from a Welsh bittern to the plants of Botany Bay, were collected, recorded, and classified, while books were produced in London and copies distributed