Roberts J. Every Living Thing. The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life 2024

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Roberts J. Every Living Thing. The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life 2024

Textbook in PDF format An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth—a competition whose consequences still reverberate today—from the bestselling author ofA Sense of the World. In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Introduction Savants Prelude The Mask and the Veil The Great Chain of Being Of the Linden Tree A Course in Starvation The Salt-Keeper’s Son Vegetable Lambs and Barnacle Trees Several Bridegrooms, Several Brides The Greater Gift of Patience Now in Blame, Now in Honor The Seven-Headed Hydra of Hamburg An Abridgment of the World Entire Loathsome Harlotry The Quarrel of the Universals This Prodigious Multitude Goldfish for the Queen Covering Myself in Dust and Ashes The Only Prize Available Durable and Even Eternal Baobab-zu-zu So Many New and Unknown Parts Governed by Laws, Governed by Whim A General Prototype Breaking the Lens My Cold Years The Price of Time God’s Registrar Germinal, Floreal, Thermidor, Messidor Transformism and Catastrophism Platypus Laughably Like Mine The Rhymes of the Universe Most Human of Humans A Large Web or Rather a Network Notes and Sources