Catching nature in the act : Réaumur and the practice of natural history in the eighteenth century / Mary Terrall.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]

275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage -- "Catching nature in the act" -- Seeing again and again : illustration and observation in domestic settings -- Recruiting observers and training "philosophical eyes" -- Natural prodigies : asexual reproduction and regeneration -- A spectacle pleasing to the mind : natural history on display -- Chickens, eggs, and the perennial question of animal generation.