ISBN-13: 9780875801667 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 203 str.
ISBN-13: 9780875801667 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 203 str.
Examines texts from 18th-century America, which have been considered belles-lettres, and finds in them scientific methods and systematic observations of a now extinct discipline, natural history. Shows how descriptions of plant, animal, and human life adhered to earlier principles, and how they inf