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If asked what was known about birds, an eighteenth-century gentleman would have responded by saying that a great deal was known about them. Birds occupied a major position in eighteenth-century culture. There was, in fact, no escaping them, for in seemingly every cultural area their presence was apparent.
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André Bourde, Agronomie et agronomes en France au XVIII e siècle Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1967, Vol. 2. pp. 891–893.
E.g., [Menon], Traité historique et practique de la cuisine, Paris, Bauche, 1758, Vol. 1, pp. 260–446.
See Sonia Roberts, Bird-keeping and Bird Cages. A History, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1972, for an interesting account of bird keeping.
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Richard Altick in his book The Shows of London, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978, describes the popularity of automata. Some of the automata were more than frivolous toys and had some serious scientific intent.
See, for example, David M. Fryer and John C. Marshall, “The Motives of Jacques de Vaucanson”, Technology and Culture, 1979, 20(2):257–269.
Andre Blum, Les modes au XVII e et au XVIII e siècle, Paris, Hachette, 1928, p. 80. Translations by the author unless otherwise noted.
The word “ornithologie”, which had not appeared in the third edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Françoise (1740) debuted in the fourth edition (1762). See Dictionnaire de l’Académie Françoise, Paris, Brunet, 1762, Vol. 2, p. 268.
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Farber, P.L. (1982). Knowledge of Birds in the Eighteenth Century. In: The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline: 1760–1850. Studies in the History of Modern Science, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7819-5_1
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