An Alca-bibliographical study of The English pilot : the history of its account of the great auk (Alcidae: Pinguinus impennis )
Bibliographical details in the biological literature concerning an account and figure of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) that appeared in the navigational guide known as The English pilot: the fourth book are largely erroneous. The first edition of this work appeared in 1689, but the great auk ac...
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credinunivpr:10.3366/anh.2007.34.1.79 2023-05-15T16:22:54+02:00 An Alca-bibliographical study of The English pilot : the history of its account of the great auk (Alcidae: Pinguinus impennis ) Olson, Storrs L. Overstreet, Leslie Lund, Judith N. 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2007.34.1.79 en eng Edinburgh University Press https://www.euppublishing.com/customer-services/librarians/text-and-data-mining-tdm Archives of Natural History volume 34, issue 1, page 79-86 ISSN 0260-9541 1755-6260 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) History Anthropology journal-article 2007 credinunivpr https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2007.34.1.79 2022-04-09T04:52:57Z Bibliographical details in the biological literature concerning an account and figure of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) that appeared in the navigational guide known as The English pilot: the fourth book are largely erroneous. The first edition of this work appeared in 1689, but the great auk account in question did not appear until the edition of 1716 and was carried through all later editions until the final one in 1794. By that time, the information was probably very much out of date due to the rapid overexploitation of the birds. Article in Journal/Newspaper Great auk Pinguinus impennis Edinburgh University Press (via Crossref) Archives of Natural History 34 1 79 86 |
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Bibliographical details in the biological literature concerning an account and figure of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) that appeared in the navigational guide known as The English pilot: the fourth book are largely erroneous. The first edition of this work appeared in 1689, but the great auk account in question did not appear until the edition of 1716 and was carried through all later editions until the final one in 1794. By that time, the information was probably very much out of date due to the rapid overexploitation of the birds. |
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An Alca-bibliographical study of The English pilot : the history of its account of the great auk (Alcidae: Pinguinus impennis ) |
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An Alca-bibliographical study of The English pilot : the history of its account of the great auk (Alcidae: Pinguinus impennis ) |
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An Alca-bibliographical study of The English pilot : the history of its account of the great auk (Alcidae: Pinguinus impennis ) |
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An Alca-bibliographical study of The English pilot : the history of its account of the great auk (Alcidae: Pinguinus impennis ) |
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An Alca-bibliographical study of The English pilot : the history of its account of the great auk (Alcidae: Pinguinus impennis ) |
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