Description: Ordering Life : Karl Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition, Hardcover by Johnson, Kristin, ISBN 1421406004, ISBN-13 9781421406008, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The career of entomologist and taxonomist Karl Jordan (1), who described 3,426 new species over the course of his career, is used in this scientific biography by Johnson (science, technology, and society; U. of Puget Sound) as a window into how social, political, and economic developments outside the walls of laboratories and museums influenced Jordan's cataloguing of species. She thus examines how the productiveness of Jordan's work depended on financial resources (provided in large part by Walter Rothschild) and networks of individual naturalists working in the field, both of which could be disrupted by such events as depression and war, as well as on scholarly presumptions about the proper activities and methods of the taxonomist, which changed over time. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Ordering Life : Karl Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Topic: Life Sciences / Taxonomy, Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, History, Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, Science & Technology
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 1.2 in
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Genre: Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Author: Kristin Johnson
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
