The Development of Biological Systematics
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System
Peter Stevens(Author)
Columbia University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. December 1994
Book
Hardback
616 pages
978-0-231-06440-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-06440-8 (9780231064408)
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