Books that mention A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (2)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: “Look at that popular work “Goldsmith’s Animated Nature.” In the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged “whale” and a “narwhale.””
Typee by Herman Melville: “suggested to me the idea of a pictorial museum of natural history, or an illustrated copy of Goldsmith’s _Animated Nature_.”