Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains : The History of High-Level Biological Classification
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- Ragan, Mark A
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc., 2023
- 1 online resource ( 857 p.) :
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- 9780197643044 (electronic book)
- 0197643043 (electronic book)
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- Cover
- Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgement: copyrighted material
- 1. The earliest Nature
- Primitive concepts of natural entities
- Early figurative art
- Symbolic language and folk taxonomies
- Creation myths
- Animal deities and anthropomorphized plants
- Transformation and metamorphosis
- Metempsychosis, reincarnation, and anamnesis
- Transmutation and transubstantiation
- 2. Eastern Nature
- The Indian subcontinent
- Buddhism
- China: the common tradition
- China: Confucianism
- China: Taoism
- China: Mohism
- Japan
- The "three kingdoms of nature" are not rooted in prehistory
- 3. Philosophical Nature
- Hellenic philosophical traditions before Socrates
- The Pythagoreans
- The Eleatics
- The atomists
- Empedocles
- Diogenes of Apollonia
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Theophrastus
- Stoic and later triadic divisions of soul or beings
- Scepticism
- Envoi
- 4. Utilitarian Nature
- Lucretius
- Seneca
- Pliny the Elder
- Herbals and pharmacopœias
- Early medical texts
- Bestiaries
- Summary
- 5. Neoplatonic Nature
- Philo of Alexandria
- Calvenus Taurus
- The Ikhwαn al-bafα
- Al-B+rkn+, Ibn S+nα, al-Ghazαl+, Ibn Rushd, and al-Abhar+
- Ni₃am+ Arkz+, al-Qazw+n+, and later authors
- bufiyya
- The Jewish philosophical tradition: Ibn Daud and Maimonides
- Kabbalah
- Duran, Alemanno, and Albotini
- The rediscovery of Aristotle's natural history
- 8. Monastic and scholastic Nature
- Cassiodorus to Hrabanus Maurus
- Eriugena
- Anselm, Peter Abelard, and Peter Lombard
- Adelard and Berachya
- Hildegard and Marius
- The School of Chartres
- Bernard Silvestris and John Blund
- Robert Grosseteste
- Thomas of Cantimpré, Bartholomæus Anglicus, and Vincent of Beauvais
- Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas
- Bonaventure and Dante
- The Fourteenth century
- Nicholas of Cusa
- From scholasticism to humanism
- 9. Nature's mystic book
- Oracles and mysteries
- Thrice-great Hermes
- Universal truths and hidden meanings
- Gnostic texts
- Macrocosm and microcosm
- Alchemy
- The Kitαb Sirr al-khal+qa
- The Sirr al-asrαr or Secretum secretorum
- Magic
- From Jαbir to the Renaissance
- Three Renaissance humanists: Ficino, Pico, and Agrippa
- Paracelsus and the alchemists
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