The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
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.
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The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
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.
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The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
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The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231064408 |
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| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Publication date: | 12/01/1994 |
| Pages: | 616 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.56(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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