ISBN:
9789401598491
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (V, 206 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 179
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 179
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Keywords:
Humanities
;
Climatic changes
;
Plant science.
;
Plant systematics.
;
Plant taxonomy.
;
Climate change.
;
Fine arts.
;
History
;
Botany.
;
Science—History.
;
Plants—Evolution.
;
Environment.
;
Arts.
Abstract:
The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism. This encompassed the development of a reliable system for plant classification and the invention of a nomenclature that could be universally applied and understood. The key that enabled Linnaeus to devise his classification system was the discovery of the sexuality of plants. The book, which is intended for the educated general reader, proceeds to illustrate how many aspects of French life were permeated by this revolution in botany between about 1760 to 1815, a botanophilia sometimes inflated into botanomania. The reader should emerge with a clearer understanding of what the Enlightenment actually was in contrast to some popular second-hand ideas today
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-015-9849-1
URL:
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