Classifications en transformation. Classifier les substances organiques en 1819 : Tables, fiches, calculs et structures (2016)
Bullynck, Maarten (Author)
Cahiers François Viète Center for Epistemology and History of Science and Technology (CFV)
Issue: III-1
Pages: 83-102
The book Die Entwicklung der Pflanzensubstanz, physiologisch, chemisch und mathematisch dargestellt (1819) contains a consequently developed research programme and methodological meditation on the organisation and classification of organic substances that illustrates well the evolution in classificatory thinking at the beginning of the 19th century. The book is the result of a correspondence between the botanist and Naturphilosoph Nees von Esenbeck, the chemist and geologer Bischof and the mathematician Rothe. In their conversation, the material supports for organising the facts (cards and tables) as well as the paper tools that allow them to manipulate these (tables and computations) are essential to the reiterative reorganisation of facts. The negociation over the question of classification runs along the tree-like forms, the tables, the inventory cards and the computations to finally find partial chemical structures within the transformations of the data themselves.
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