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

Susannah Gibson. -- Oxford University Press, -- 2015. -- First edition.

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ISBN 0198705131 (hardback)
ISBN13桁 9780198705130 (hardback)
テキストの言語 英語                  
分類：NDC10版 402
個人著者標目 Gibson, Susannah,
本タイトル Animal, vegetable, mineral? :
タイトル関連情報 how eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order /
著者名 Susannah Gibson.
版表示 First edition.
出版地・頒布地 Oxford ;
出版者・頒布者名 Oxford University Press,
出版年・頒布年 2015.
数量 xv, 215 pages :
他の形態的事項 illustrations ;
大きさ 23 cm
書誌注記 Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.
内容注記 Animal, vegetable, mineral? -- Animal : the problem of the zoophyte -- Vegetable : the creation of new life -- Mineral : living rocks -- The fourth kingdom : perceptive plants -- Epilogue.
要約、抄録、注釈等 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 Trembley found that freshwater polyps grew into complete individuals when cut. This shocking discovery raised deep questions: was it a plant or an animal? And this was not the only conundrum. What of coral? Was it a rock or a living form? Did plants have sexes, like animals? The boundaries appeared to blur. And what did all this say about the nature of life itself? Were animals and plants soul-less, mechanical forms, as Descartes suggested? The debates raging across science played into some of the biggest and most controversial issues of Enlightenment Europe. This book explains how a study of pond slime could cause people to question the existence of the soul; observation of eggs could make a man doubt that God had created the world; how the discovery of the Venus fly-trap was linked to the French Revolution and how interpretations of fossils could change our understanding of the Earth's history. Using rigorous historical research, and a lively and readable style, this book vividly captures the big concerns of eighteenth-century science. And the debates concerning the divisions of life did not end there; they continue to have resonances in modern biology.
個人件名 Aristotle
一般件名細目 Influence.
一般件名 Biology -- History -- Popular works.
Natural history -- History.
資料情報1 『Animal, vegetable, mineral? : how eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order /』First edition.　Susannah Gibson.　Oxford University Press,　2015. （所蔵館：中央　 請求記号：F/402.0/G45/A　 資料コード：7107738836）
URL https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352021592

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