The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural SystemA 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Lamarck on Continuity and Classifications | 14 |
The Natural Method of AntoineLaurent de Jussieu | 23 |
Breaking with Continuity? | 63 |
Growing Confusion | 92 |
Types Groups and Relationships | 133 |
Continuity and Classification | 152 |
On Understanding Nature | 183 |
Revolution and Change? | 233 |
Epilogue | 263 |
Translations of Jussieus Early Works | 271 |
Candolle Jussieu and the Théorie élémentaire | 389 |
Notes | 399 |
Bibliography | 523 |
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Natural History and the Status of Systematics | 199 |
Stability of Classifications and Its Causes | 219 |
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Adanson affinities Alphonse de Candolle analogy anatomy animals Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu appeared approach arrangement Asa Gray Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle Bernard de Jussieu botanists botany Brongniart Buffon calyx Candolle's chapter characters classes classification comparative Compositae connected continuity corculum corolla cotyledons Cuvier described diagrams Dicotyledones discrete discussion distinct divisions eighteenth essential example families floral flower fossils function gaps Genera plantarum genus George Bentham groups hierarchy Ibid ideas important included insertion J. D. Hooker Labiatae Lamarck later Leguminosae less Lindley linked Linnaean Linnaeus Macleay Mirbel monocotyledons monopetalous names natural history natural method natural order natural system naturalists nineteenth century noted observed organs ovary petals pistil placed plants polypetalous position principles rank ranunculi recognized rela relationships seed separate similar simple sometimes species Stafleu stamens Stevens structure studies suggested synthesis systematics systematists taxa taxonomic theory thought tion tionships Tournefort tree understanding Ventenat zoology
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