The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Fabulous Animals |
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... discovered , died hard . His work The Animal Kingdom surveyed in 1817 the extent of contemporary zoological knowledge : he described in all some 386 mammals . Seventy years later Leunis and Ludwig in 1886 listed some 2,300 . By 1939 ...
... discovered , died hard . His work The Animal Kingdom surveyed in 1817 the extent of contemporary zoological knowledge : he described in all some 386 mammals . Seventy years later Leunis and Ludwig in 1886 listed some 2,300 . By 1939 ...
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... discovered in India was a huge turtle - like creature Colossochelys Atlas . In lectures during 1844 in London and York , he drew attention to the Hindu myth of a giant turtle which supports an elephant on its back on which the earth ...
... discovered in India was a huge turtle - like creature Colossochelys Atlas . In lectures during 1844 in London and York , he drew attention to the Hindu myth of a giant turtle which supports an elephant on its back on which the earth ...
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... discovered first that aromatics were equally effec- tive , and then that smoke was also . Then he discovered a pattern of association between birds and fires , which led in the end to his experiments with his modern phoenix . So it ...
... discovered first that aromatics were equally effec- tive , and then that smoke was also . Then he discovered a pattern of association between birds and fires , which led in the end to his experiments with his modern phoenix . So it ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
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