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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Carl Linnaeus"”.
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
… and archival theory, the project interrogates Carl Linnaeus' (1707-1778) sexual system of plant classification, arguing that its metaphorical alignment of botanical reproduction with human marriage naturalised and reinforced patriarchal social hierarchies. Through an interdisciplinary …
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Managing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment: The Practice of Natural History in Britain, 1760-1820
… being that developed by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus that was widely adopted in Britain from the 1760s. Concentrating on three of the most prominent natural historians of the late eighteenth century, Joseph Banks (1743–1820), Thomas Pennant (1726–98) and Gilbert White (1720–93), this …
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Armour and Lace: Women Photographers in Nineteenth-Century Institutions
… Royal Observatory, Greenwich; the archives of Carl Linnaeus, Uppsala, Sweden. What this thesis is not about: The art of photography or art photographs, the history of V&A objects photographed, amateur photographers, art history, and the biographies of ‘exceptional women’.
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Taxonomy and the History of Science: A Critical Analysis of Four Historic Publications
… exploration of the difficulties of publishing, Linnaeus' <em>Species Plantarum</em>, and three pre-Linnaean works from Pliny the Elder, Nehemiah Grew, and Rembert Dodoens, I have found that the history of the sciences has been largely distorted. The distortion appears to be of many factors, …