• "The truly honest, ingenious, and modest Mr. Mark Catesby, F.R.S." : documenting his life (1682/83-1749) / E. Charles Nelson
• Behind the scenes : Catesby the man, viewed through the lens of a camera / Cynthia P. Neal
• Mark Catesby's botanical forerunners in Virginia / Karen Reeds
• Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) : pioneering naturalist, artist, and inspiration for Catesby / Kay Etheridge and Florence F.J.M. Pieters
• William Dampier (1651-1715) : the pirate of exquisite mind / Diana Preston and Michael Preston
• John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina and his "Compleat history" : the Mark Catesby connection / Marcus B. Simpson Jr.
• Mark Catesby's world : England / Janet Browne
• Mark Catesby's world : Virginia / Sarah Hand Meacham
• Mark Catesby's Carolina adventure / Suzanne Linder Hurley
• Mark Catesby's Bahamian natural history (observed in 1725-1726) / Robert Robertson
• Mark Catesby's preparatory drawings for The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Henrietta McBurney
• The publication of Mark Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Leslie K. Overstreet
• The plant collections of Mark Catesby in Oxford / Stephen A. Harris
• Carl Linnaeus and the influence of Mark Catesby's botanical work / C.E. Jarvis
• The economic botany and ethnobotany of Mark Catesby / W. Hardy Eshhaugh
• "Of birds of passage" : Mark Catesby and contemporary theories on bird migration and torpor / Shepard Krech III
• Catesby's animals (other than birds) in The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / Aaron M. Bauer
• Catesby's fundamental contributions to Linnaeus's binomial catalog of North American animals / Kraig Adler
• Mark Catesby's plant introductions and English gardens of the eighteenth century / Mark Laird
• Following in the footsteps of Mark Catesby / Judith Magee
• Inspiration from The natural history of Carolina... by Mark Catesby / Ghillean T. Prance
• Conclusions : Account, appendix, Hortus, and other endings among Mark Catesby's work / David J. Elliott
• Appendix : Identification of the plants and animals illustrated by Mark Catesby for The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands / James L. Reveal.

In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683-1749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored his return to North America. There Catesby catalogued the flora and fauna of the Carolinas and the Bahamas by gathering seeds and specimens, compiling notes, and making watercolour sketches. Going home to England after five years, he began the twenty-year task of writing, etching, and publishing his monumental The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands . Mark Catesby was a man of exceptional courage and determination combined with insatiable curiosity and multiple talents. Nevertheless no portrait of him is known. The international contributors to this volume review Catesby's biography alongside the historical and scientific significance of his work. Ultimately, this lavishly illustrated volume advances knowledge of Catesby's explorations, collections, artwork, and publications in order to reassess his importance within the pantheon of early naturalists.
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• Life in the deep sea
• Bioluminescence
• Hank Compton
• The art of Hank Compton / Mark Anderson
• Fire in the sea
• Appendix: Digitizing the artwork / Larry J. Hyde.

The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Rockport Marine Lab was present on some of the earliest Gulf of Mexico cruises on which these fishes were collected for the first time in Texas waters. Upon returning, Compton would retire to the darkroom he had constructed beneath a stairwell at the lab and photograph the specimens. A talented artist, Compton then painted watercolors based on his photographs. He allowed free rein to both his scientific judgment and his artistic vision as he constructed representations of how the specimens might have appeared in the crushing pressure of their alien environment. Compton dubbed the series of deep-water paintings "Fire in the Sea" because of the shimmering bioluminescence common to these deep-water species. Then, along with taxonomic descriptions, he drafted fanciful narratives to accompany the paintings: quirky, humorous, and sometimes cryptic stories of the fishes in their unreachable habitat. Professor, researcher, and author David A. McKee has taken Compton's work, discovered in cardboard boxes following his death, and, along with others, provided chapters on bioluminescence, life in the deep, taxonomic arrangement, and life history information.
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• Life in the deep sea
• Bioluminescence
• Hank Compton
• The art of Hank Compton / Mark Anderson
• Fire in the sea
• Appendix: Digitizing the artwork / Larry J. Hyde.

The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Rockport Marine Lab was present on some of the earliest Gulf of Mexico cruises on which these fishes were collected for the first time in Texas waters. Upon returning, Compton would retire to the darkroom he had constructed beneath a stairwell at the lab and photograph the specimens. A talented artist, Compton then painted watercolors based on his photographs. He allowed free rein to both his scientific judgment and his artistic vision as he constructed representations of how the specimens might have appeared in the crushing pressure of their alien environment. Compton dubbed the series of deep-water paintings "Fire in the Sea" because of the shimmering bioluminescence common to these deep-water species. Then, along with taxonomic descriptions, he drafted fanciful narratives to accompany the paintings: quirky, humorous, and sometimes cryptic stories of the fishes in their unreachable habitat. Professor, researcher, and author David A. McKee has taken Compton's work, discovered in cardboard boxes following his death, and, along with others, provided chapters on bioluminescence, life in the deep, taxonomic arrangement, and life history information.
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"Lulu Phezulu" (or 'Lulu on top') is the name of the home of Leigh ('Lulu') Voigt, the well-known artist and book illustrator who lives with her artist husband in the house they built for themselves on a mountain top in a nature reserve in Mpumalanga. This treasure of a book is at one level a personal account of her and her family's move from the city to the country and their serendipitous encounters with nature and the local people. It is also a breathtakingly beautiful natural history notebook filled with Leigh's watercolours and drawings as well as a wealth of anecdotes, curiosities, lore, and legend about the natural world. "Lulu Phezulu" has grown over many years out of Leigh's need to express, in both words and pictures, the bush and its fascination, highlighting the oddities and complexities of some of its engaging characters, both human and animal. It will appeal to all who have a love of nature and a love of life, both the ordinary and the extraordinary.
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• Il naturalista del Granduca. La carriera di uno scienziato e poeta aretino alla corte dei Medici / Walter Bernardi
• Il naturalista e il cappellano. Osservazione della natura e immagini 'dal naturale' in Francesco Redi / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Paolo Tongiorgi
• Il problema della generazione degli insetti delle galle nei manoscritti e nei protocolli di laboratorio di Francesco Redi / Walter Bernardi
• Descrizione del manoscritto / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
• Attualità e validità scientifica delle tavole di Francesco Redi / Guido Pagliano, Luciano Santini, Franco Strumia
• Descrizione delle carte del manoscritto / Guido Pagliano, Luciano Santini, Franco Strumia
• Elenco dei nomi latini delle specie animali, vegetali e batteriche delle quali sono raffigurate le 'galle' sulle tavole rediane / Guido Pagliano, Luciano Santini, Franco Strumia.