{"product_id":"the-science-of-describing-natural-history-in-renaissance-europe","title":"The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eOut of the diverse traditions of medical humanism  classical philology  and natural philosophy  Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories  manuscript correspondence  garden plans  travelogues  watercolors  and drawings  The Science of Describing reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists.  In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries  naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world  but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and animal species. To do so  they developed new techniques of observing and recording  created botanical gardens and herbaria  and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. By the early seventeenth century  naturalists began the daunting task of sorting through the wealth of information they had accumulated  putting a new emphasis on taxonomy and classification.  Illustrated with woodcuts  engravings  and photographs  The Science of Describing is the first broad interpretation of Renaissance natural history in more than a generation and will appeal widely to an interdisciplinary audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946072207413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226620883","price":28.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226620886.jpg?v=1769922169","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-science-of-describing-natural-history-in-renaissance-europe","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}