Buch, Englisch, 616 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 68 g
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
Buch, Englisch, 616 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 68 g
ISBN: 978-0-231-06440-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.




