Animal, vegetable, mineral? : how eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order /

Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of new creatures coming to Europe from across the world, challenged these neat divisions. Abraham Tremble...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibson, Susannah
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Biology > Popular works.
Biology > Nomenclature > Popular works.
Botany
Zoology
Mineralogy
Science
Natural history-Classification
Animals.
Plants.
Minerals
Bryozoa.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5PCkCQAAQBAJ&pg=PP5&dq=isbn+9780198705130&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU_Y2cz97YAhXCv7wKHQXsAzYQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=isbn%209780198705130&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Animal, vegetable, mineral?
  • Animal: the problem of the zoophyte
  • Vegetable: the creation of new life
  • Mineral: living rocks
  • The fourth kingdom: perceptive plants
  • Epilogue.

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