In "Discovering Birds, " Paul Lawrence Farber rejects the view
that eighteenth-century natural history disappeared with the rise
of nineteenth-century biology. In this penetrating case study of
the history of ornithology, Farber demonstrates interesting
continuities: as natural history evolved into individual sciences
(botany, geology, and zoology) and specialties (entomology and
ichthyology), the study of birds emerged as a distinct scientific
discipline that remained observational and taxonomic.
Ornithologists continued to see one of their primary tasks as
classification, and they found no need to alter their approach.
Their efforts were greatly aided at the end of the eighteenth
century as colonization and exploration brought new dataa plethora
of exotic and previously unknown birds. By the mid-nineteenth
century, ornithology had become a scientific discipline with
international experts, a large empirical base, and a rigorous
methodology of watching and cataloging.
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