One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural phi

Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott

Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Fut