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- Title Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum
- Author Mary P. Winsor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 342
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London
- Date 1991-11-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226902159 / 0226902153
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.01 x 6.07 x 0.86 in (22.89 x 15.42 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Naturalists - United States, Harvard University - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91008742
- Dewey Decimal Code 574.012
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Paperback / softback. New. Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores the conflicting forces that shaped systematics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Debates over the philosophical foundations of classification, details of taxonomic research, the young institution's financial struggles, and the personalities of the men most deeply involved are all brought to life. In 1859, Louis Agassiz established the Museum of Comparative Zoology to house research on the ideal types that he believed were embodied in all living forms. Agassiz's vision arose from his insistence that the order inherent in the diversity of life reflected divine creation, not organic evolution. But the mortar of the new museum had scarcely dried when Darwin's…
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