Susannah Gibson

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?

How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780198705130
• ISBN-10: 0198705131
• Artikelnr.: 42397492

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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