Leaves on the loose: The changing nature of archiving plants and botanical knowledge
Leaves on the loose: The changing nature of archiving plants and botanical knowledge

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the relationship between the compilation of a herbarium in early modern history and the search for a classification of nature. By looking at the histories of different herbaria and their compilers, this paper shows how the nature of ordering botanical materials changes along with the search for a system of ordering plant knowledge.

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