Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? : How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order.
Gibson, Susannah.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? : How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (238 pages)
Cover -- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? -- Aristotle´s animals -- Natural history in the ancient world -- Natural history in the medieval and early modern world -- The life sciences in the eighteenth century -- 2: Animal -- Standing on the shore -- Abraham Trembley and the animal in the eighteenth century -- John Ellis and the chemical animal -- Classifying the unclassifiable -- 3: Vegetable -- Linnæus and the new order -- Do plants have sex? -- The chicken or the egg? -- The man plant -- 4: Mineral -- The mystery of coral -- Fossils and the new science of geology -- Beringer´s lying stones -- Strata Smith´s fossil map -- 5: The Fourth Kingdom -- A fourth kingdom? -- Stephen Hales and the Newtonian vegetable -- Percival´s perceptive plant -- The mechanical plant -- Revolutionizing nature -- 6: Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Index -- End Adverts.
Does the natural world divide neatly into 'animal, vegetable, mineral'? Discoveries in the 18th century threw the question wide open; debates raged, and fed into wider religious and political battles concerning God's creation and the natural social order.
9780191015236
Animals -- Social aspects -- History.
Minerals -- Social aspects -- History.
Plants -- Social aspects -- History.
Electronic books.
QL85 .G384 2015
509.033
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? : How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (238 pages)
Cover -- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? -- Aristotle´s animals -- Natural history in the ancient world -- Natural history in the medieval and early modern world -- The life sciences in the eighteenth century -- 2: Animal -- Standing on the shore -- Abraham Trembley and the animal in the eighteenth century -- John Ellis and the chemical animal -- Classifying the unclassifiable -- 3: Vegetable -- Linnæus and the new order -- Do plants have sex? -- The chicken or the egg? -- The man plant -- 4: Mineral -- The mystery of coral -- Fossils and the new science of geology -- Beringer´s lying stones -- Strata Smith´s fossil map -- 5: The Fourth Kingdom -- A fourth kingdom? -- Stephen Hales and the Newtonian vegetable -- Percival´s perceptive plant -- The mechanical plant -- Revolutionizing nature -- 6: Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Index -- End Adverts.
Does the natural world divide neatly into 'animal, vegetable, mineral'? Discoveries in the 18th century threw the question wide open; debates raged, and fed into wider religious and political battles concerning God's creation and the natural social order.
9780191015236
Animals -- Social aspects -- History.
Minerals -- Social aspects -- History.
Plants -- Social aspects -- History.
Electronic books.
QL85 .G384 2015
509.033