Kingdom of Ants José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World
Edward O. Wilson, "Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World"
English | ISBN: 0801897858 | 2010 | 120 pages | MOBI | 1416 KB
One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrieves Mutis's contributions from obscurity.