Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? : How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order.

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.

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