| Contents |
Unity in diversity -- Aristotle : the first philosopher-naturalist / Julia Brtittain -- Theophrastus : the father of botany / Christopher J. Humphries & David Sutton -- Pedanios Dioscorides : recording the medicinal use of plants / David Sutton -- Pliny the Elder : collector of knowledge / David Sutton -- Leonhart Fuchs : the value of illustrations / Brian W. Ogilvie -- Ulisse Aldrovandi : observation at first hand / Giuseppe Olmi -- Andrea Cesalpino : physician, philosopher and botanist / Robert Huxley & Christopher J. Humphries -- Pierre Belon : pioneer of comparative anatomy / Alan Cutler -- Konrad Gessner : the beginnings of modern zoology / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Nicolaus Steno : unlocking the earth's geological past / Alan Cutler -- John Ray : the English Aristotle / Robert Huxley -- Robert Hooke : natural history through the microscope / Brian J. Ford -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek : the discoverer of bacteria / Brian J. Ford -- Sir Hans Sloane : the great collector / Robert Huxley -- Maria Sibylla Merian : the metamorphosis of insects / H. Walter Lack -- Mark Catesby : colonial naturalist and artist / Steve Cafferty -- Carl Linnaeus : the man who brought order to nature / Christopher J. Humphries & Robert Huxley -- Comte de Buffon : a grand theorist / Sandra Knapp -- Georg Steller : the discovery of Alaska / Robert Press -- Michel Adanson : a universal method of classification / Denis Lamy -- Erasmus Darwin : evolutionary beginnings / Robert Press -- William Bartram : scientific recorder and artist / Judith Magee -- Joseph Banks : voyager and patron of natural history / Tania Durt -- Johann Christian Fabricius : classifier of insect diversity / R.I. Vane-Wright -- James Hutton : discoverer of geological time / Jill Cook -- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck : the inheritance of acquired characteristics / Sandra Knapp -- Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu : a new method of plant classification / Denis Lamy -- Georges Cuvier : extinction and the animal kingdom / Philippe Taquet -- William Smith : the father of English geology / John L. Morton -- Alexander von Humboldt : a vision of the unity of nature / Judith Magee -- John James Audubon : artist, naturalist and adventurer / Roberta J.M. Olson -- William Buckland : first to describe a dinosaur / Jill Cook -- Charles Lyell : advocate of modern geology / Jill Cook -- Mary Anning : fossil hunter / Crispin Tickell -- Richard Owen : champion of comparative anatomy / David Williams -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz : examination, observation, comparison / David Williams -- Charles Darwin : the complete naturalist / Keith Thomson -- Alfred Russel Wallace : the problem of the origin of species / Sandra Knapp -- Asa Gray : the plants of the American Southwest / Sandra Knapp. |
