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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    March 2012
    July 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511703874
    9781108005166
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703874
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    Dimensions:
    (244 x 170 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.72kg, 456 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, History, Zoology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, History, Zoology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    Thomas Pennant (1726–98) was a keen geologist, naturalist and antiquary. Linnaeus supported his election to the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in 1757, and in 1767 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. His History of Quadrupeds (1793), aimed to promote natural history among a wider readership, originated in an informal index to John Ray's Synopsis of 1693. In his preface, Pennant acknowledges the monumental Histoire naturelle by the Comte de Buffon, as well as works by Klein (1751), Brisson (1756), and particularly the work of Linnaeus, though Pennant strongly disagreed with Linnaueus's classification of primates as including humans with apes. Pennant's two-volume book, beautifully illustrated with over 100 engravings, provides an overview of the state of zoological classification at the end of the eighteenth century. Charles Darwin owned a copy and had it sent to him in South America during the Beagle voyage.

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