Natural Sciences
Description:
Current scientific discoveries build on intellectual achievements of the past. The Natural History exhibit presents books that reflect significant advances in scientific thought.
This exhibit case shows books that present formerly unknown information (Audubon's Birds of North America and Gray's Anatomy,) organization of knowledge (Linneaus' Philosophia Botanica,) evolutionary models (Darwin & Gould,) and a warning (Carson's Silent Spring.)
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Bibliography:
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DNA : the secret of life / James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003 QH437 .W387 2003 |
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Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica / translated by Stephen Freer Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003 QK91 .P513 2003 |
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Silent spring. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1962. SB959 .C37 1962 |
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The structure of evolutionary theory / Stephen Jay Gould Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002 QH366.2 .G663 2002 |
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Audubon's Birds of America / [edited] by Roger Tory Peterson & Virginia Marie New York : Abbeville Press, c1981. QL681 .A97 1981 |
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Gray's anatomy / edited by Peter L. Williams ... [et al.] Edinburgh ; New York : C. Livingstone, 1989. QM23.2 G74 1989 |
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The origin of species and the voyage of the beagle / Charles Darwin ; with an introduction by Richard Dawkins New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2003. QH365 .O2 2003 |
This exhibit was created on April 6, 2009 and designed by Carla Arbagey.
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