Natural History
Natural history is the study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study. It encompasses scientific research but is not limited to it, with articles more often published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study of any category of natural objects or organisms. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly focused disciplines. So while modern natural history dates historically from studies in the ancient Greco-Roman world and the medieval Arabic world through to the scattered European Renaissance scientists working in near isolation, today's field is more of a cross discipline umbrella of many specialty sciences. For example, geobiology has a strong multi-disciplinary nature combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences.
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Some articles on natural history:
... His love of natural history was noted by the Dartmouth faculty, who gave him a letter of introduction to study under the well-known Harvard professor Louis Agassiz ... time that Bickmore began to visualize founding a Museum of Natural History in New York City, as the European museums of natural history were in political and ...
... The term "natural history" alone, or sometimes together with archeology, forms the name of many national, regional and local natural history societies that maintain records for birds (ornithology ... of these societies in Britain include the Natural History Society of Northumbria founded in 1829, British Entomological and Natural History Society ... The growth of natural history societies was also spurred due to the growth of British colonies in tropical regions with numerous new species to be discovered ...
... (1987) The Butterflies of Costa Rica and their Natural History ... (1997) The Butterflies of Costa Rica and their Natural History ... Morphinae) implications for classification and natural history ...
Famous quotes containing the words history and/or natural:
“If you look at the 150 years of modern China’s history since the Opium Wars, then you can’t avoid the conclusion that the last 15 years are the best 15 years in China’s modern history.”
—J. Stapleton Roy (b. 1935)
“If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)