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Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World

By Edward O. Wilson, José M. Gómez Durán
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By Edward O. Wilson, José M. Gómez Durán
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One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern-day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten writings, this fascinating story of scientific adventure in eighteenth-century South America retrieves Mutis's contributions from obscurity.

In 1760, the 28-year-old Mutis—newly appointed as the personal physician of the Viceroy of the New Kingdom ...

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