29 janvier 2024
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Theodore W. Pietsch, « Botanical Monographs », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10.4000/books.mnhn.14892
Generally speaking, natural history is enriched and perfected through monographs. An author focusing on an entire kingdom can perfect the method applied but cannot bring the depth required to all parts of the science. Naturalists owe their knowledge to the patient men who attempted to study a family and who made interesting discoveries on the structure of organisms, their relationships, or their history. This study method already had its partisans in the seventeenth century; it was even more...