Stella & Rose's Books

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Contents

• FOREWORD
• HISTORY OF ART.
• HISTORY OF IDEAS
• WHY DARWIN?
• NATURE UNVEILED TO SCIENCE
• PROLOGUE EARTHLY PARADISE
• THEPOWER OF NATURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
• THE GRAND TOUR OF CLARA THE RHINOCEROS
• FROM AMATEURS TO SCHOLARS: THE MUTATIONS OF A COLLECTION
• THE WORLD'S IMMENSIVY, NATURE'S DIVERSITY: THE ERA OF THE GRAND VOYAGES
• NICOLAS BAUDIN'S EXPEDITION TO THE AUSTRAL LANDS
• AQUARIUM MANIA
• TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
• THE FIRST OCEANOGRAPHIC TREATISE
• UNLOCKING NATURE'S SECRETS
• VERNE REINVENTED BY MELIES
• THE ANTIQUITY OF THE WORLD; THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE'S TIME
• LANDSCAPE AND GEOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
• THE INVENTION AND REINVENTION OF DINOSAURS
• PREHISTORIC HUMANS IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE IMAGINATION
• ROSNY AINE'S NOVEL OF ORIGINS
• VOLUTIONS, AUTHORS, THEORIES, READERS
• FROM THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING TO THE TREE OF LIFE
• WHY IS THE PEACOCK BEAUTIFUL?
• LAUGHTER AND DREAMS
• ERNST HAECKEL AND BEAUTY
• DARWIN, EVOLUTION AND CARICATURE
• THE DOUBLE: VARIATIONS ON THE APE
• APES IN OUR IMAGE
• THE BEAST WITHIN: HYBRIDS AND CHIMERAS
• ARS SIVE NATURA: ART, NATURE AND THE "POWER OF IMAGINATION" IN THE WORKS OF ODILON REDON
• MONET WATER LILIES
• EVOLUTION AND ART NOUVEAU
• FATAL MIRROR OF THE AGES
• WRITING ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF MAN, OR THE MERGENCE OF ANIMALITY
• THE SOMBRE FACE OF EVOLUTION: DEGENERATION, DEVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION
• THE ORIGINS ACCORDING TO ABSTRACTION
• NATURE: THE WILD PART OF THE WORLD
• NATURE: THE IMPOSSIBLE ELSEWHER
• ARTIFICIALIS
• APPENDICES
• LIST OF WORKS
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX OF PROPER NAMES