LionelB on Nostr: I bought an 1857 reprint of an 1815 book on entomology. Not for scientific insights ...

I bought an 1857 reprint of an 1815 book on entomology. Not for scientific insights but to see how they thought, what they did and what they observed.

What I expected was Enlightenment inspired scientific analysis.

I was quite unprepared to find heavy duty theology. Given that vicars were among the few who had the education and leisure to become entomologists, I should not have been.

The Victorian habit of signalling gentility by always using three words when one will do is extremely intrusive.

Mass production of print seems to have brought about conspicuous over-indulgence in text.

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