"Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology" . . "Museum of Comparative Zoology." . . "Science." . . "SCIENCE Life Sciences Biology." . . "Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873." . . "Naturalistas Estados Unidos Biografías." . . "Barbour, Thomas, 1884-1946." . . "Evolutionstheorie." . . "Animales Historia Clasificación." . . "Naturalists United States Biography." . . "Animaux Classification Histoire." . . "Sciences naturelles Classification Histoire." . . "Zoologie." . . "Zoology." . . "Agassiz-museum (Cambridge, Mass.)" . . . . "Reading the Shape of Nature Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum" . "Reading the Shape of Nature Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum"@en . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . . . . . . . . . . "Classification"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores the conflicting forces that shaped systematics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Debates over the philosophical foundations of classification, details of taxonomic research, the young institution's financial struggles, and the personalities of the men most deeply involved are all brought t." . "Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores the conflicting forces that shaped systematics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Debates over the philosophical foundations of classification, details of taxonomic research, the young institution's financial struggles, and the personalities of the men most deeply involved are all brought t."@en . "Reading the shape of nature" . . "History" . "History"@en . . . "Reading the shape of nature comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum" . "Reading the shape of nature comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . "Reading the shape of nature : comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum" . . . . . . . . . . . "Geschichte." . . "Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology History." . . "Animals Classification History." . . "Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910." . . "Historia natural Clasificación." . . "Naturalistes États-Unis Biographies." . . "Natuurlijke historie." . . "Natural history Classification History." . . "Natural history." . . "1859-1934" . .