The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System

ISBN-13: 9780231064408 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 616 str.

Peter F. Stevens

Opis

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.