'What makes you a scientist is the way you look at things': Ornithology and the observer 1930-1955

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-77

  Macdonald, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birdwatching; Ecology; Fieldwork; Gestalt perceptions; Nationalism; WWII

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036120034     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8486(01)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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