Article ID: CBB000933663

Baroque Classification: A Missing Chapter in the History of Systematics (2006)

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Systematic biology as it has evolved since the renaissance has been strongly influenced by various forms of occultism, including the Hermetic tradition. In the thirteenth century Ramon Lull developed combinatorics as a mechanism for generating all possible propositions. This became, along with mnemonics, one of the bases for notions of universal science and a universal language that became particularly fashionable in the 1600s. The Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher developed such notions and applied them to classification. Such notions were available to Linnaeus and there are indications that he made use of them. Combinatorics helps to explain his use of the artificial system and his reasoning about the multiplication of species through hybridization.

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Authors & Contributors
Müller-Wille, Staffan
Laurenza, Domenico
Stephen B. Heard
Emily S. Damstra
Michael Köhncke
Poddighe, Elisabetta
Concepts
Classification in biology
Biology
Systematics (biology)
Botany
Terminology and nomenclature
Zoology
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
21st century
20th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Places
Sweden
France
Romania
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
United States
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Institutions
Uppsala Universitet
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