Kingdom of Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural His

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.