Voyagers
James Paradis, 18 June 1981
Sir Joseph Banks
by Charles Lyte.
David and Charles, 248 pp., £10.50, October 1980,0 7153 7884 8 Show More
by Charles Lyte.
David and Charles, 248 pp., £10.50, October 1980,
The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870
by Lynn Barber.
Cape, 320 pp., £9.50, October 1980,9780224014489 Show More
by Lynn Barber.
Cape, 320 pp., £9.50, October 1980,
A Vision of Eden
by Marianne North.
Webb and Bower, 240 pp., £8.95, October 1980,0 906671 18 3 Show More
by Marianne North.
Webb and Bower, 240 pp., £8.95, October 1980,
“... innovation of constructing an interlocking system of classes, terms and names was so significant, William Whewell argued in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), that modern systemic science could be said to begin with Linnaeus. Whewell wrote at a time when a wide variety of new lexical systems had been accepted as the matrices of scientific ... ”