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Mark Catesby (Essex, 24 de marzo de 1683 - Londres, 23 de diciembre de 1749) fue un naturalista británico. Entre 1731 y 1743 publicó su Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, la primera obra impresa sobre la flora y fauna de Norteamérica. Ésta incluía 220 láminas de aves, reptiles, anfibios, peces ...
Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America.
In February 1722, Mark Catesby, a 40-year old Englishman with an enigmatic past and an insatiable curiosity for the wondrous serendipity of nature, set sail from London on a three-month voyage to South Carolina.
Mark Catesby, an English naturalist, came to Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1712 and spent the next several years sketching and collecting plants and animals from Virginia's tidewater region.
The English naturalist Mark Catesby (1682-1749) compiled the first comprehensive survey of the flora and fauna of south-eastern North America (then part of the British colonies). He made two extended visits to the region, to Virginia 1712-19 and to Carolina and Florida 1722-26.
Mark Catesby fue un naturalista británico. Entre 1731 y 1743 publicó su Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, la primera obra impresa sobre la flora y fauna de Norteamérica. Ésta incluía 220 láminas de aves, reptiles, anfibios, peces, insectos y mamíferos.
The first accounts of the strange flora and fauna of the New World created a great demand among European scientists for more detailed information. In 1712 a young English naturalist named Mark Catesby sailed to Virginia to visit his sister in Williamsburg.
