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GERARD AND JAUME: TWO NEGLECTED FIGURES IN THE HISTORY OF JUSSIAEAN CLASSIFICATION (PARTS ONE AND TWO)
Author(s) -
Williams Roger L.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220932
Subject(s) - cult , exposition (narrative) , sensibility , politics , democratization , natural (archaeology) , history , art history , humanities , literature , art , ancient history , political science , archaeology , law , democracy
Summary Part I: Louis Gérard (1733–1819); his development of a system of natural classification; the Flora Gallo‐Provincialis (1761) and its fate. Part II: The progress of the idea of natural classification in the later eighteenth century; the cult of sensibility vs. the cult of reason; and the academic politics of the French Revolution. Part III: Jean Henri Jaume Saint‐Hilaire (1772–1845) and his Exposition des families naturelles (1805); the task of popularizing natural classification; and a new role for botany in the democratization of society in the nineteenth century.