Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France - The Spirit of the Enlightenment (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 179
Release date:	October 2001
First published:	October 2001
Authors:	R.L. Williams
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	197
Edition:	2001 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-6886-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	0-7923-6886-X
Barcode:	9780792368861

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