The development of biological systematics : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, nature, and the natural system /
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| Author / Creator: | Stevens, Peter F. (Peter Francis), 1944- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c1994. |
| Description: | xxiii, 616 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1681130 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 616 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231064403 |
