Animal, vegetable, mineral? : how eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order / Susannah Gibson.
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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Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | xv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Format: | Book |
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