The Development of Biological Systematics : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System Hardback
by Peter Stevens
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:616 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1994
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- ISBN:9780231064408
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:616 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1994
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- ISBN:9780231064408