Keywords
Classification system – Farber
Plant species – Linnaeus
Elements of nature – Buffon
List of new sources
Rieseberg, Loren., Wood, Troy. & Baack, Erick. The nature of plant species. Nature , (2006): 524–527. doi:10.1038/nature04402
McDade, Lucinda A. "Species concepts and problems in practice: insight from botanical monographs." Systematic Botany (1995): 606-622.
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Farber describes the order of nature as a biological and ecological relationship that exists between organisms and their surroundings. In his descriptions, Farber refers to the order of nature as a process of evolution that demonstrates how long term and short term changes in the environment influence development of nature 1 . Farber’s description relate to the introductions by Buffon’s and Linnaeus’s in their book – since these three naturalists attempt to question the evolution of nature by drawing a philosophical and ethical meaning to enhance their understanding of nature. These three naturalists explored the social cultural and institutional contexts that influenced biological sciences. Therefore, their historical context mainly focused on the professional scientific disciplines in biological sciences such as botany and zoology.
Linnaeus was a researcher that traveled across Europe conducting extensive research in taxonomy whereas Buffon was situated in Paris where he conducted all his research. Both of these naturalists collected thousands of specimens and studied them while comparing their similarities and differences. Linnaeus concentrated on his classifications of living organisms and extended his studies on the animal kingdom. On the other hand, Buffon studied living organisms including animals and plants and how they existed in their natural environment 2 . He further published further published his observational and experimental studies as a natural historian.
Bibliography
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc. Buffon's Natural history, containing a theory of the earth, a general history of man, of the brute creation, and of vegetables, minerals, &c. &c. 1797. London: Printed for the Proprietor, and sold by H. D. Symonds.
Rose, Hugh & von Linné, Carl. The Elements of Botany ...: Being a Translation of the Philosophia Botanica, and Other Treatises of the Celebrated Linnæus. To which is Added, an Appendix, Wherein are Described Some Plants Lately Found in Norfolk and Suffolk ... T. Cadell, 1775
1 Rose, Hugh & von Linné, Carl. The Elements of Botany ...: Being a Translation of the Philosophia Botanica, and Other Treatises of the Celebrated Linnæus. To which is Added, an Appendix, Wherein are Described Some Plants Lately Found in Norfolk and Suffolk ... T. Cadell, 1775
2 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc. Buffon's Natural history, containing a theory of the earth, a general history of man, of the brute creation, and of vegetables, minerals, &c. &c. 1797. London: Printed for the Proprietor, and sold by H. D. Symonds.
