[The debate on the generation of imperfect plants in the 17th and 18th centuries].
Year: 2003
Type: other
Abstract: 18th-century discussions on the generation of imperfect plants were often linked with the question of their position in the natural world, namely as whether they were part of the vegetable or mineral realm. As attested by the work of Joseph Gaertner, Johann Jakob Dillen, Pier Antonio Micheli and René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, as well as of Antonio Vallisneri, and Lazzaro Spallanzani, the different images of nature - continuity and discontinuity - adopted by naturalists influenced their solution to this question.
Source: PubMed
Author: Alessandro Ottaviani
Institution: Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
Language: Italian
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2410225371