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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Susannah Gibson is an affiliated scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge on the history of the life sciences in the eighteenth century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Animal, vegetable, mineral?

  • 2: Animal: the problem of the zoophyte

  • 3: Vegetable: the creation of new life

  • 4: Mineral: living rocks

  • 5: The fourth kingdom: perceptive plants

  • 6: Epilogue

  • Notes

  • Further Reading

  • Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780198705130
ISBN-10: 0198705131
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gibson, Susannah
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 223 x 139 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Susannah Gibson
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,404 kg
Artikel-ID: 104841005