Linnaeus

Linnaeus

Author: Wilfrid Blunt

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780691096360

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William Stearn's appendix on Linnean classification provides a concise survey of the basics necessary for understanding Linnaeus's work."--BOOK JACKET.


Fundamenta Botanica

Fundamenta Botanica

Author: Carl Von Linn E

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781354680537

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Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century

Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9004495398

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How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity.


Worlds of Natural History

Worlds of Natural History

Author: Helen Anne Curry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 131651031X

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Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.


Caroli Linnaei, Med. Doct., Soc. Ac. Imper. Nat. Cur., Classes Plantarum, Seu, Systemata Plantarum Omnia a Fructificatione Desumta

Caroli Linnaei, Med. Doct., Soc. Ac. Imper. Nat. Cur., Classes Plantarum, Seu, Systemata Plantarum Omnia a Fructificatione Desumta

Author: Carl von Linné

Publisher:

Published: 1738

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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A review of the plant systems of other authors beginning with Andrea Caesalpino (1519-1603), and an elaboration of Linnaeus' own rules for a natural system which he earlier expressed in the second part of Fundamenta botanica. Dedicated to Nils Reuterholm (1676-1756) and Gabriel G. Gyllengrip (1687-1753).


The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

Author: Kimberly Anne Coles

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137338204

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The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.