Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France : The Spirit of the Enlightenment /

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 universall...

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Main Author:	Williams, Rogel L.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
Series:	Archives Internationales D'Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas ; 179.
Subjects:	Humanities. Climatic changes. History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book