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

By Peter F. Stevens

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231064403
• ISBN13: 9780231064408
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher