Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France
Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France

Author: R.L. Williams

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9401598495

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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.

Dumont D’Urville
Dumont D’Urville

Author: Edward Duyker

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13:

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Explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime explorer fascinated by botany, entomology, ethnography and the diverse languages of the world. As a young ensign he was decorated for his pivotal part in France's acquisition of the famous Vénus de Milo. D'Urville's voyages and writings meshed with an emergent French colonial impulse in the Pacific. In this magnificent biography Edward Duyker reveals that D'Urville had secret orders to search for the site for a potential French penal colony in Australia. He also effectively helped to precipitate pre-emptive British settlement on several parts of the Australian coast. D'Urville visited New Zealand in 1824, 1827 and 1840. This wide-ranging survey examines his scientific contribution, including the plants and animals he collected, and his conceptualisation of the peoples of the Pacific: it was he who first coined the terms Melanesia and Micronesia. D'Urville helped to confirm the fate of the missing French explorer Lapérouse, took Charles X into exile after the Revolution of 1830, and crowned his navigational achievements with two pioneering Antarctic descents. Edward Duyker has used primary documents that have long been overlooked by other historians. He dispels many myths and errors about this daring explorer of the age of sail and offers his readers grand adventure and surprising drama and pathos.

Nature's Investigator
Nature's Investigator

Author: Robert Brown

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13:

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Transcripts of Robert Brown's diaries, supplemented with notes from the writings of Flinders and Good; Brown was the naturalist on the 'Investigator' voyage; maps and diary entries for places visited; mentions contact with Aboriginal peoples, including at: Princess Royal Harbour p. 96-99, 104-5 (includes a word list of eleven words); comments on drawings of van Diemen's land Aborigines at a meeting with Baudin at Encounter Bay, p. 179; at Sandy Cape p. 227; Bongare and Flinders interacting with local people 231-233; Nanberry and others attacked at Port Curtis p. 237-239; Keppel Bay p. 244, 258; Nanbury did not understand the language at Shoalwater Bay p. 259-260; the 'Lady Nelson' which was accompanying the 'Investigator' was sent back to Sydney, taking Nanbaree who was homesick); Murray Islands p. 290-3 (includes word list of five words and three men's names); p. 303 Pennefather River; place name for Mill Creek is Gurakarang or Yierakarang (includes word list of five plant names) p. 445-446; five kinds of kangaroo distinguished p. 446; meeting an Aboriginal party at Port Dalrymple p. 469-470; language of Van Dieman's Land collected by Brown at River Derwent (word list of 31 words) p. 482-483; visit from, then conflict with, Aborigines at Williams River (NSW) p. 553-554.

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Gen. pl

Author: Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

Publisher:

Published: 1791

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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Phylonyms
Phylonyms

Author: Kevin de Queiroz

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 1353

ISBN-13: 0429821212

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Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades - lineages of organisms - are defined by reference to hypotheses of phylogenetic history rather than by taxonomic ranks and types. This volume will document the Real World uses of PhyloCode and will govern and apply to the names of clades, while species names will still be governed by traditional codes. Key Features Provides clear regulations for implementing new guidelines for naming lineages of organisms incorporates expressly evolutionary and phylogenetic principles Works with existing codes of nomenclature Eliminates the reliance on rank-based classification in favor of phylogenetic relationships Related Titles: Rieppel, O. Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig (ISBN 978-1-4987-5488-0) Cantino, P. D. and de Queiroz, K. International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (PhyloCode) (ISBN 978-1-138-33282-9).