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Alexander Wilson. Photo taken by Sammy Luo in Stanford, CA. This site was last updated on May 15, 2024. It was created using Jekyll with interactive components running on p5.js. About me I am a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College. I received my PhD from Dartmouth College advised by Rosa Orellana.
Born in Scotland, Alexander Wilson emigrated to the United States and established the discipline of ornithology there. His pioneering study on North American birds, American Ornithology, made him a leading naturalist of his time. Wilson was born on July 6, 1766, in Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland.
Wilson, A. 1810. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States: illustrated with plates engraved and colored from original drawings taken from nature. 2: v–xii, 13–167, pl.10–18. Philadelphia. Bradford & Inskeep. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.97204 BHL Reference page .
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20 de may. de 2019 · pp. + numerous plates. $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0674072558. Wealth, pedigree, and power by association are prominent themes in lives of American leaders. Burtt and Davis portray Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) as an exception to this prevailing narrative of birthright leadership. Born to working-class Scottish parents, Wilson grew up a ...
Alexander Wilson (1714 - 16 de octubre de 1786) fue un cirujano escocés, tipógrafo, astrónomo, matemático y meteorólogo. Fue el primer científico en registrar el uso de las cometas en la investigación meteorológica. 1 . Su hijo Patrick Wilson le sucedió como Regius Professor de astronomía en la Universidad de Glasgow, en 1784.
24 de jun. de 2013 · Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson’s unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson’s ...
