Tools for Reordering

Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica

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ID9358564
AutoresMatthew Daniel Eddy (0000-0002-9528-4864, Durham University, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume20
Fascículo2
Páginas227-252
Data de publicação2010-05-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIntellectual History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-6977 • E-ISSN: 1749-6985
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496971003783773
OpenAlexW2046449860
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

While much has been written on the cultural and intellectual antecedents that gave rise to Carolus Linnaeus’s herbarium and his Systema Naturae, the tools that he used to transform his raw observations into nomenclatural terms and categories have been neglected. Focusing on the Philosophia Botanica, the popular classification handbook that he published in 1751, it can be shown that Linnaeus cleverly ordered and reordered the work by employing commonplacing techniques that had been part of print culture since the Renaissance. Indeed, the functional adaptability of commonplace heads allowed him to split and combine the book’s chapters and tables and played a notable conceptual role in the way in which he spatialized words and, to a certain extent, specimens

Art · Art history · Linguistics · Space (punctuation) · The Renaissance · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy

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