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.
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.
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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
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
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