The Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray opens with reflections on the study of natural history, then tells the lives of the great zoologists from Aristotle and Pliny the Elder through the Renaissance encyclopaedists to Linnaeus, whose student years at Uppsala and friendship with the fish expert Peter Artedi are recounted in detail.
A readable 1830s history of zoology through its founders, for naturalists and historians of science. Download the free EPUB.