Article ID: CBB000047377

How to make oneself nature's spokesman? A Latourian account of classification in 18th- and early 19th-century natural history (1993)

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Description “My argument will be that, to explain Buffon's failure and Cuvier's success, we should not focus on the epistemological or theoretical concerns and justifications of these naturalists, but on the concrete and heterogeneous means or tools through which animals were mobilized, stabilized and combined into ever more comprehensive systems of classification.”


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Authors & Contributors
Sloan, Phillip R.
Caponi, Gustavo
Bognon-Küss, Cécilia
Wolfe, Charles T.
Tintant, Henri
Taquet, P.
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Sciences et Techniques en Perspective
Proceedings of the ... International Congress of the History of Science
Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Routledge
Bréal
Concepts
Classification of knowledge
Biology
Philosophy of science
Naturalists
Evolution
Comparative anatomy
People
Cuvier, Georges
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monet de
Kant, Immanuel
Oken, Lorenz
Linnaeus, Carolus
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
France
Europe
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