Romantic Natural History

March 6, 2006 1:50 PM

Romantic Natural History: "A website designed to survey relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859)." Including links to various natural historians from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, illustrations and illustrators, literary figures in Romanticism, and, of course, much more.
posted by OmieWise (9 comments total)

Awesome.
posted by freebird at 1:57 PM on March 6, 2006

This is great.
posted by brundlefly at 2:00 PM on March 6, 2006

Excellent find OmieWise! Thank you.
posted by peacay at 2:31 PM on March 6, 2006

Wow wow wow. This is actually similar to what I want to study in grad school.
posted by lunalaguna at 3:07 PM on March 6, 2006

Loving this. Thanks Omiewise!
posted by setpounds at 5:32 PM on March 6, 2006

Amazing, thanks.
posted by mediareport at 10:37 PM on March 6, 2006

Thanks so much for this.
posted by maryh at 12:05 AM on March 7, 2006

This is brilliant. A real treasure trove. These kind of posts are the best of mefi, as far as I'm concerned. I always hope that the lack of comments doesn't mean nobody reads them.
posted by greycap at 1:48 PM on March 7, 2006

Yeah, me too!
posted by OmieWise at 5:32 AM on March 8, 2006