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Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France - The Spirit of the Enlightenment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001)
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Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France - The Spirit of the Enlightenment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 179
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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 universally applied and
understood. The key that enabled Linnaeus to devise his
classification system was the discovery of the sexuality of plants.
The book, which is intended for the educated general reader,
proceeds to illustrate how many aspects of French life were
permeated by this revolution in botany between about 1760 to 1815,
a botanophilia sometimes inflated into botanomania. The reader
should emerge with a clearer understanding of what the
Enlightenment actually was in contrast to some popular second-hand
ideas today.
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