Systems and How Linnaeus Looked at Them in Retrospect.

A famous debate between John Ray, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and Augustus Quirinus Rivinus at the end of the seventeenth century has often been referred to as signalling the beginning of a rift between classificatory methods relying on logical division and classificatory methods relying on empirica...

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Publicado en:Annals of Science Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 305 - 318
Autor principal: Müller-Wille, S.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2013
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        Biological classification
        Von Linné, Carl, 1707-1778
        Academic debating
        Pre-Linnean natural history
        Ray, John, 1627-1705
        De Tournefort, Joseph Pitton, 1656-1708
        Rivinus, Augustus Quirinus
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