Emergence of Natural History

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This peer reviewed series features books that examine the historic attitude of humans towards nature as an object of study, and the development of the field of knowledge we now know as natural history. Observing, collecting and explaining the diversity of nature has been important throughout history. This series addresses the many faces of natural history from the classical age up to the early nineteenth century. It is particularly designed to include volumes on the lives, work and networks of people whose contributions have proven foundational, but who have been overshadowed by more well-known figures such as Linnaeus and Darwin. Volumes encompass the global and cultural history of natural history, explore the role played by practitioners such as traveling naturalists, collectors, artists, and bring attention to indigenous, visual, and manuscript sources.

Books may be scholarly monographs or edited works, but we also welcome well-researched exhibition catalogues or primary source editions with comprehensive introductions. Contributions that address underexplored figures, themes, and (visual) sources from an interdisciplinary and historical perspective are particularly encouraged.

Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to either the series editors Aaron M. Bauer , Andreas Weber, and Dominik Hünniger , or the Publisher at Brill, Alessandra Giliberto.

Brill is in full support of Open Access publishing and offers the option to publish your monograph, edited volume, or chapter in Open Access. Our Open Access services are fully compliant with funder requirements. We support Creative Commons licenses. For more information, please visit Brill Open or contact us at openacess@brill.com.
Everlasting Flowers between the Pages
The Making of Seventeenth-Century Florilegia
Volume 9
978-90-04-73514-9
The Rhinoceros of South Asia
Volume 6
978-90-04-69154-4
Connecting Territories
Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850
Volume 5
978-90-04-41247-7
The Flowering of Ecology
Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book
Volume 3
978-90-04-28480-7
Naturalists in the Field
Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Volume 2
978-90-04-32384-1
Aaron M. Bauer is the Gerald M. Lemole Endowed Professor of Integrative Biology at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He received his doctoral degree in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary, and since 1988 has been based at Villanova. His biological research focuses on the systematics, morphology and biogeography of lizards of the Southern Hemisphere. His historical interests are centered on the development of European natural history cabinets and museums from the 16th to the 19th centuries, the history of the biological exploration of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the history of comparative anatomy, systematics, and herpetology.

Dominik Hünniger is an environmental historian and curator at the German Port Museum in Hamburg. He is interested in 18th and 19th century environmental, medical and natural history as well as the history of infrastructure, logistics and technologies. His is also an affiliate researcher at the Hunterian, University of Glasgow and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change/Museum of Nature in Hamburg. He has published on the histories of animal disease, natural history collecting, labour and arts in natural history as well as on the history of universities and education.

Andreas Weber is an associate professor in the section Knowledge, Transformations, and Society (KiTeS) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He received his doctoral degree from Leiden University in 2012. His research focusses on (colonial) histories of natural history, chemistry, and governance in insular Southeast Asia and Europe in the long nineteenth century. He is also working on new methods to contextualize digitized natural and cultural heritage collections.
Series Editors
Aaron M. Bauer, Villanova University, PA, USA
Dominik Hünniger, German Port Museum, DE
Andreas Weber, University of Twente, NL

Editorial Board
Tom Baione, AMNH, USA
Isabelle Charmantier, Linnean Society, UK
Esther van Gelder, National Library of the Netherlands, NL
Eric Jorink, Huygens ING, NL and Leiden University, NL
Sachiko Kusukawa, Cambridge University, UK
Santiago Madriñan, Universidad de Los Andes, COL
Dániel Margócsy, University of Cambridge, UK
Henrietta McBurney Ryan, independent scholar and art curator, UK
Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Cambridge, UK
Florence Pieters, University of Amsterdam, NL
Bert van de Roemer, University of Amsterdam, NL
Kees Rookmaaker, National University of Singapore, SG
Paul Smith, Leiden University, NL
Claudia Swan, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Mary Terrall (†), UCLA, USA
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