Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist
- Series : Medieval and Early Modern Science
Volume: 16 - Publisher : Brill
- Published In : Leiden
- Illustrations : text figs
Description:
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.
Condition
Vg. From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name to endpaper. Book review tipped in at front.
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