Author: Roos, A.M.
Title: Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist
Description: Brill 2011 xx, 478, text figs. . HB. Vg. From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name to endpaper. Book review tipped in at front.. This first full-length biography of Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized as the father of conchology.. [9789004207035]

Keywords: Arachnology; Conchology; History of Science


See more books from our catalog: History Biography & Bibliography,History Biography & Bibliography