Coenraad Jacob Temminck and the emergence of systematics (1800-1850) / / by Maria Eulàlia Gassó Miracle.

• Superior document: Emergence of natural history ; Volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Gasso Miracle, Maria Eulalia, 1973-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Emergence of natural history ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Coenraad Jacob Temminck and the Emergence of Systematics (1800-1850) is the first study to examine in detail the life and work of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), the Dutch naturalist who was the first director of 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum of Natural History)...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Note on Quotations and Translations
• Introduction
• 1 Portraits of Coenraad Jacob Temminck
• 2 On Dutch Natural History
• 3 Summary of the Chapters
• 4 A Word of Caution: On Definitions
• part 1: Birds, Cabinets, and Museums
• 1 From Catalogs to Monographs
• 1 Exotic Birds on Cupboards and Plates
• 2 François Levaillant and Bernhard Meyer
• 3 From Listing to Classifying
• 4 Temminck's Earliest Monographs
• 2 From Collector to Director
• 1 Appointments and Politics
• 2 The Direction of 's Lands Kabinet
• 3 Collections for the Universities
• 4 Building Up a Network
• 5 The Concept of a National Museum
• 3 National Museum, National Expeditions
• 1 The Birth of 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie
• 2 Temminck's Directorate
• 3 Colonial Nature
• 4 A Worldwide Web of Collectors
• 4 A Place for Systematics
• 1 The Museum's Scientific Output
• 2 Temminck's Podium
• 3 The Geography of Systematics
• Part 2: Zoological Classification: 1800-1850
• 5 Patterns, Laws, and Types
• 1 Geographical Patterns and the "Type" Concept
• 2 Temminck's Law versus Buffon's Law
• 3 On the Origin and Immutability of Species
• 4 After Temminck's Law
• 6 Systematics Wars
• 1 Temminck's Debates
• 2 Nomenclatural Chaos
• 3 Establishing Genera
• 4 The Search for a Natural Classification System
• 5 The 'Parliamentary Practice'
• 7 Systematics and Natural History: 1800-1850
• 1 Defining 'Natural History'
• 2 The Issue of Philosophical Arguments
• 3 The Status of Anatomy and Physiology
• 4 Systematics within Natural History
• Conclusion: The Emergence of Systematics
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.