Pohjoisnavalta päiväntasaajalle: Helppotajuisia esitelmiä

Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.8
Word count
1M words
Chapters
103

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Foreign Language Books Popular Science Science EnlightenmentNature ObservationEvolutionary ThoughtGeography ScienceConversational StylePopular LecturePole to Equator19th CenturyWondrous LandscapeExotic Culture

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Pohjoisnavalta päiväntasaajalle: Helppotajuisia esitelmiä by Alfred Edmund BrehmAuthor: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884,Language: Finnish, Class: QH: Science: Natural history, Release Date: Feb 21, 2016

Editor's review

Alfred Edmund Brehm was a famous nineteenth-century zoologist and popular-science writer, and this Finnish work, From the North Pole to the Equator: Popular Lectures, continues his tradition of making natural history vivid and readable. The book is organised in lecture form, moving from the polar regions to the tropics in turn, covering animal form, habits and geographical distribution, in language addressed to a general audience rather than to fellow specialists. Its value lies not in cutting-edge research but in the way it presents nineteenth-century natural history's habits of observation and enthusiasm for description: readers can feel the author's detailed attention to particular species and also see the tone and limitations of science popularisation in that era. For readers learning Finnish or interested in natural history, it is a public-domain work that combines language practice with intellectual pleasure; for historians of science, it is also a sample of nineteenth-century popular-science writing. Reading it alongside a map or an illustrated species guide works better.

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Reading tips

  1. Read in chapter order from the poles to the equator, using a map to build a sense of space.
  2. Mark species names as you go, and look them up together after finishing a passage so as not to break the rhythm.
  3. When using it as language material, read a short section each day and copy out descriptive sentence patterns.
  4. Readers interested in the history of science can note the author's methods of observation and the limitations of his era as they read.

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FAQ

What language is this book written in? The original is in Finnish. The Project Gutenberg data mark Language: Finnish, so it suits readers with Finnish reading ability; those without a foundation in Finnish will need a translation or reference tools for support.
Does the content include modern zoological classification? No. Brehm lived in the nineteenth century, and the classifications and terminology in the book reflect the level of natural history of that time, differing from modern classification systems. Readers should treat it as a work of science history and popular science, not as a reference for looking up the latest classification.
Can I read it without any Finnish? Reading the original will present clear obstacles. If you are interested only in the content, you can look for translations into other languages or modern popular science on related topics; if you want to use it to learn Finnish, it is advisable to have basic grammar and vocabulary first, then read it section by section.
How does reading lecture-style writing differ from ordinary popular science? The lecture style keeps an oral rhythm and a sense of live presence; passages are linked by the logic of the telling rather than by dense subheadings. As you read, imagine an audience present and read by lecture, which makes it easier to grasp the theme and examples of each lecture than reading straight through.

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About the author

Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884 Author

Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829–1884) was a noted nineteenth-century writer on zoology. Details of his life are limited in publicly available sources, yet he left his mark on the history of European natural-history reading through the voluminous Het Leven der Dieren (The Life of Animals). The library holds twenty-two of his works, most of them fascicles of this great series, arranged by taxonomic group and covering beasts of prey, parrots, fowl, rails, waders, seabirds, rodents, and edentates, which shows how he introduced animals order by order within a classification system. His writing combines scientific description with readability, skillfully setting out habits and forms and bringing natural-history knowledge to ordinary readers; it thus had a lasting influence on later popular animal books.