History of Quadrupeds: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology) - Softcover

Pennant, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108005179 ISBN 13: 9781108005173

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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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Thomas Pennant (1726–98) was a keen geologist, naturalist and antiquary. His two-volume History of Quadrupeds (1793), beautifully illustrated with over 100 engravings, aimed to promote natural history among a wider readership. Charles Darwin owned a copy and had it sent to him in South America during the Beagle voyage.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108005179
• ISBN 13: 9781108005173
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448