A Natural System of Botany: Or a Systematic View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution, of the Whole Vegetable Kingdom (1836)
A Natural System of Botany: Or a Systematic View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution, of the Whole Vegetable Kingdom (1836)
Excerpt from Natural System of Botany: Or a Systematic View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution, on the Whole Vegetable Kingdom; Together With the Uses of the Most Important Species in Medicine, the Arts, and Rural or Domestic Economy In the first edition of this work I entered into some explanation of the fallacy of the common opinion that the artificial system of Linnaeus is easy, and the Natural System difficult of application. Within the last five or six years, however, the sentiments ...
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Excerpt from Natural System of Botany: Or a Systematic View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution, on the Whole Vegetable Kingdom; Together With the Uses of the Most Important Species in Medicine, the Arts, and Rural or Domestic Economy In the first edition of this work I entered into some explanation of the fallacy of the common opinion that the artificial system of Linnaeus is easy, and the Natural System difficult of application. Within the last five or six years, however, the sentiments of the public have undergone so great a change upon this subject that I no longer find it necessary to go into such details. All, therefore, that I propose to do on this occa sion is to Offer a few very general remarks upon the Natural System itself. The principle upon which I understand the Natural System of B0 tany to be founded is, that the affinities of plants may be determined by a consideration of all the points of resemblance between their various parts, ' properties, and qualities; that thence an arrangement may be deduced in which those species will be placed next each other which have the greatest degree Of relationship and that consequently the quality or structure of an imperfectly known plant may be determined by those Of another which is well known. Hence arises its superiority over arbitrary or artificial systems, such as that of Linnaeus, in which there is no combination of ideas, but which are mere collections of iso lated facts, not having any distinct relation to each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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