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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts

by Robert Williams Wood

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First published
1917
Pages
69
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Robert Williams Wood was a serious physicist with a mischievous streak, and in 1907 he put the second trait to work in this pocket manual of flornithology for beginners. Each page sets a bird beside a flower, fruit, or vegetable whose name or shape resembles it, the parrot and the carrot being the classic example, then adds a short comic verse and a deliberately crude woodcut so the reader can never again confuse the two. The joke runs on puns and mock-scientific solemnity, and it holds up because Wood commits to it completely. Light, quick, and quietly clever, it has amused readers for well over a century.

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Robert Williams Wood

Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955) was an American physicist celebrated for pioneering work in optics, spectroscopy, and ultraviolet photography, and for debunking pseudoscience. A playful writer as well as a scientist, he produced this book of comic verse and woodcuts as a lighthearted counterpoint to his research.

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First published
1917
Reading time
About 10 minutes
Pages
69
Language
English
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