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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    August 2010
    July 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511701757
    9781108001656
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701757
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.63kg, 500 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, History, Zoology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, History, Zoology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
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    John Fleming (1785–1857) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, but in his time at the University of Edinburgh he had also studied geology and zoology. In the tradition of the country parson who was also a talented and knowledgeable naturalist, he published his first works on the geology of the Shetland Islands while serving there as a minister. His subsequent works led to his being offered the chair of natural philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and subsequently at the newly created chair of natural history at the Free Church College in Edinburgh. The two-volume Philosophy of Zoology was published in 1822, and the young Charles Darwin is recorded as borrowing it from the library of Edinburgh University in 1825/6. His intention in the book was to 'collect the truths of Zoology within a small compass, and to render them more intelligible, by a systematical arrangement'.

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