| Physical description |
xxiii, 616 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-585) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Lamarck on Continuity and Classifications -- 3. The Natural Method of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu -- 4. Jussieu and the Next Generation: Breaking with Continuity? -- 5. Detection of the Natural Order: Growing Confusion -- 6. Types, Groups, and Relationships -- 7. Continuity and Classification -- 8. On Understanding Nature -- 9. Natural History and the Status of Systematics in the Nineteenth Century -- 10. Stability of Classifications and Its Causes -- 11. Revolution and Change? -- Appendix 1.Translations of Jussieu's Early Works -- Appendix 2. Candolle, Jussieu, and the Theorie elementaire. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de, 1748-1836.
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Biology -- Classification -- History.
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Plants -- Classification -- History.
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| ISBN |
0231064403 (acid-free paper) |
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