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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Stevens, Peter
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| Publisher: |
Columbia University Press
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| Date: |
12/01/1994
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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. 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.
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