"Good observers of nature" American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 /
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Athens, Ga. :
University of Georgia Press,
c2007.
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- Introduction. The languages of nature : an overview
- Botany's beautiful arrangement : Almira Phelps and Enlightenment science
- The pressure of hidden causes : Margaret Fuller and Romantic science
- The noble designs of nature : Susan Fenimore Cooper, natural science, and the picturesque aesthetic
- Spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : Mary Treat and evolutionary science
- Epilogue. Human homes in nature's household : the emergence of a conservation ethic.