natural histories
Organism study compilations
Natural histories are accounts of the natural world—descriptions of animals, plants, minerals, and ecosystems based on observation rather than experiment.
The term dates to when "history" meant any systematic inquiry.
A natural history of a species details its habitat, behavior, and life cycle.
The plural often refers to the genre or tradition: She read Victorian natural histories for pleasure.
- DarwinBritish naturalist, species theorist
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- field notesDocumentation from fieldwork
- zoologyStudy of fauna
- animal behaviorActions of living creatures
living world · cladistics · travelogues · documentary · bird watching · discoveries · studies · ethnographies · indigenous knowledge · ethnobotany · botanical illustrations · ecology · paleontology · atlases · taxonomy · fossils · species · habitats
- Colonial Americanacolonial laws, almanacs, Benjamin Franklin, William Bradford, Thomas Paine
- old booksfirst editions, folios, octavos, quartos, incunabula
- ancient textsscrolls, scroll, Euclid's Elements, Epic of Gilgamesh, codex
- Biology TextsSystema Naturae, The Double Helix, Darwin, Watson
- Colonial Letterscodices
natural historieslaboratory experiments
Controlled scientific investigations indoors
controlled experiments · experimental science · clinical trials · synthetic biology · theoretical physics
natural historiespure mathematics
Mathematics pursued abstractly
theoretical physics · formal logic · deductive reasoning · mathematical modeling
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