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NOTES AND RECORDS-THE ROYAL SOCIETY JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
卷 72, 期 3, 页码 383-405出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2017.0042
关键词
Robert Sibbald; Scotia Illustrata; British wildlife; early modern wildlife; Scotland's faunal record
资金
- Antiquaries of London
- Alice McCosh Trust
- Society for the History of Natural History
This paper examines a pre-industrial Scottish natural history text by Robert Sibbald called Scotia Illustrata (Edinburgh, 1684), which is significant for two reasons: (i) it is based on data submitted by correspondents from across Scotland, and (ii) it only includes biological species attested to be present by witnesses or found in previous historical accounts of the country. These facts allow us to adopt a unique methodology: After its introduction, this paper approaches the text as a potential source of biodiversity information, and extracts data on the presence/absence of fauna in the seventeenth century. The extracted species are identified (as far as possible) to species level, and then the gathered information is used as a baseline to discuss later losses from the biodiversity of Scotland during the industrial period.
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