Kingdom of Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the new World [Audiobook] download free by Edward O. Wilson
- Listen audiobook: Kingdom of Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the new World
- Author: Edward O. Wilson
- Release date: 2010/9/7
- Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780801897856
- Rating: 7.68 of 10
- Votes: 253
- Review by: Byron Gamez
- Review rating: 7.62 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/2
- Duration: 1H27M56S in 256 kbps (24 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, WAV, MPEG-4 ALS, WMA, MPEG4 (compression 7Z, ARJ, ZIP, LZ, TAR.XZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 120
- Includes a PDF summary of 11 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 8M9S (2.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: One of the earliest New World naturalists, Jose 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.In 1760, the 28-year-old Mutis-newly appointed as the personal physician of the Viceroy of the New Kingdom of Granada-embarked on a 48-year exploration of the natural world of northern South America. His thirst for knowledge led Mutis to study the region's flora, become a professor of mathematics, construct the first astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere, and amass one of the largest scientific libraries in the world. He translated Newton's writings and penned essays about Copernicus; lectured extensively on astronomy, geography, and meteorology; and eventually became a priest. But, as two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward O. Wilson and Spanish natural history scholar Jose M. Gomez Duran reveal in this enjoyable and illustrative account, one of Mutis's most magnificent accomplishments involved ants. Acting at the urging of Carl Linnaeus-the father of taxonomy-shortly after he arrived in the New Kingdom of Granada, Mutis began studying the ants that swarmed everywhere. Though he lacked any entomological training, Mutis built his own classification for the species he found and named at a time when New World entomology was largely nonexistent. His unorthodox catalog of army ants, leafcutters, and other six-legged creatures found along the banks of the Magdalena provided a starting point for future study.Wilson and Duran weave a compelling, fast-paced story of ants on the march and the eighteenth-century scientist who followed them. A unique glance into the early world of science exploration, Kingdom of Ants is a delight to read and filled with intriguing information.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Natural History Books, History Of Science, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Insects (entomology), Biology, Life Sciences, Taxonomy & Systematics
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 34.37 USD
- Dimensions: 140x216x14mm
- Weight: 272g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Baltimore, MD, United States
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