Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Introduction. Natural History: Scope, Method, History 1
6. One The Seventeenth Century, Rumphius: “I Would Rather Be Astounded” 38
7. Interlude. Imagination 65
8. Two The Eighteenth Century, Linnaeus: “The Laps Are Our Teachers” 69
9. Interlude. Contradiction 103
10. Three The Nineteenth Century, Alfred Russel Wallace: “Not Merely the Journal of a Traveller” 108
11. Interlude. Repatriation 150
12. Four The Twentieth Century, Harold C. Conklin: “A Word Having to Do with Knowledge” 156
13. Interlude. Preternatural 186
14. Epilogue “Lucubrationes” 191
15. Notes 205
16. Bibliography 231
17. Index 251