Taxidermy as rhetoric of self-making: Charles Waterton (1782-1865), wandering naturalist

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

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 269-294

  Grasseni, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8486(98)00022-3     Document Type: Article

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