Bugs & the Victorians

Description:

Explores how science became increasingly important in nineteenth-century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life

Condition

Vg in d/w (in removable protective sleeve). From the library of British coleopterist, Robert Angus, with his name to title page.