![]() From the start of his career, Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne´, 1708–1778) deployed the list as a distinctive tool of scientific rhetoric. Aside from his Hortus Cliffortianus (his patron paid for the artist and plates), even his illustrations were, in effect, graphic lists of flower parts, leaf shapes, and the like. His taxo- nomic works fell readily into long lists of organisms and minerals, hierarchically arranged, each shorthand binomial accompanied by a list of synonyms and a list of succinct descriptive phrases. He could turn out eloquent essays about Nature, but lists and outlines were clearly the cheapest and most efficient way to accomplish the enormous task God had set him (so he saw it) of naming, describing, and classifying everything in Creation. Past my Top 10, the rest were all very hard to put in order some outstanding titles here, with quality music. And yes, I will still run through some Reviews In Brief and add as many of these titles to the site. Journal of the History of Biology (2007) 40:369–386 Springer 2007 DOI 10.1007/s1073-6 Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica, translated by Stephen Freer (Oxford University Press, 2003), paperback edition 2005, indexes, illustrations, xxv 402 pp., $89.50 (paper). Pretty easy to pick my favourites and even though I haven’t had time to review a good many of these, they have all been in high rotation over the last 12 months. In beautifully clear language, Toxic Archipelago explores what Walker calls the hybrid causations of industrial toxicity, helping us understand how toxic substances pervaded Japans human and nonhuman communities. Journal of the History of Biology Springer Journals Brett Walker has written an exemplary history of chemicals, pain, and ecological simplification in Japan. BRETT WALKER LOST WOLVES REVIEW SERIESHis earliest theoretical works, Systema Naturae (first edition, 1735), Bibliotheca Botanica (1736), and especially Fundamenta Botanica and Critica Botanica (both 1737) laid out the elements of his method in a series of self-confident numbered propositions: terse, ![]() ![]() ![]() Journal of the History of Biology (2007) 40:369–386 Springer 2007 DOI 10.1007/s1073-6 Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica, translated by Stephen Freer (Oxford University Press, 2003), paperback edition 2005, indexes, illustrations, xxv 402 pp., $89.50 (paper). ![]()
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