from Part II - Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
Natural History and Science’ focuses on Goldsmith’s eight-volume An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (1774), a comprehensive natural history that synthesizes the works of various naturalists, including Carl Linnaeus and Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Goldsmith’s incorporation of these other writers’ observations into his scientific literature participates in the collective, collaborative mode of natural history, a science that invited amateur participation and revision in this era.
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