Roots of Ecology: Antiquity to Hæckel

Acknowledgments Introduction  I. GREEKS AND ROMANS, ANTIQUITY  1.   Early Greek Origins                                             2.   Aristotle and Theophrastos                                  3.   Hellenistic Natural History                                   4.   Roman Natural History    II. MEDIEVAL MILLENNUM, A.D. 500 -- 1500  5.   Byzantine Natural History                                   6.   Arabic Language Science: Origins and Zoology 7.   Arabic Language Science: Botany, Geography and Decline 8.   Frederick II, Amateur Avian Ecologist and Behaviorist                                                            9.   Albertus Magnus, a Scholastic Naturalist  III. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE & SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, 1500s-1600s  10.   Botany during Italian Renaissance and Early Scientific Revolution  11.   Vertebrate Zoology, 1500s        12.   Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, 1500s   13.   Broadening Science in Italy and England, 1600-1650s    14.   Plant Growth Studies, 1600s              15.   Origins of Human and Animal Demography and Statistics         16.   Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London    17.   Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, 1600s   18.   John Ray and His Associates, Francis Willoughby & Wm Derham 19.   Leeuwenhoek's Microscopic Natural History  IV. NATURAL HISTORY, 1700s  20.   Richard Bradley, Entrepreneurial Naturalist    21.   Reaumur and His History of Insects                    22.   Early European Naturalists Explore Eastern North America   23.   Linnaeus and the Economy of Nature                24.   Buffon and Environmental Influences on Animals 25.   John and William Bartram Explore Eastern North America      26.   Gilbert White, Naturalist Extraordinaire         27.   Naturalists Explore Russia and North Pacific Lands          28.   Plant Growth Studies              29.   Plant Disease Studies                          30.   Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology   31.   Animal Population Studies        V. EMERGENCE OF ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 1800s  32.   Humboldt, Nature's Geographer                            33.   Naturalists Explore North America, mid-1780s-mid-1820s                                                                                                         34.   A Changing Economy of Nature                             35.   Beginnings of British Marine Biology: Edward Forbes and Philip Gosse                                                              36.   Hewett Watson, Plant Geographer and Evolutionist   37.   Charles Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle                    38.   Naturalists Explore Western North America, mid 1820s-1850s 39.   Henry David Thoreau, Ecologist                                                             40.   Darwin's Evolutionary Ecology                                                                      41.   Victorian Naturalists in Amazonia: Wallace, Bates and Spruce    42.   Victorian Naturalists abroad: Hooker, Huxley and Wallace      43.   Plant Physiology           44.   Phytopathology                              45.   Entomology                                                                                                                                   46.   From Parasitology to Germ Theory     47.   Ernst Haeckel's Ecology                                                                                    Maps      1.  Locator map, chapters 1-8  2.Locator map, chapters 9-31  3.Bering's Voyages, 1727-29, 1741-42, in the North Pacific and Bering Sea  4.Humboldt's Explorations in Spanish America  5.2. British vegetation subdivided into 18 provinces  Bibliography