The Naming of Names

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• You say arbutus, I say kisspop

  The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants by Anna Pavord 470pp, Bloomsbury, £30 The Naming of Names is a resounding title for a physically splendid book, but perhaps a little misleading. It had me expecting a general meditation ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Heroes who looked, saw and thought

  I imagine that most people, if asked who was responsible for the familiar method of classifying plants and animals into families, genera and species, would name the 18th-century Swedish naturalist Linnaeus. It is true that he named more species than ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  Great Book!

  Great book! Amazing illustrations.
  The author is very good at telling a long history of over 2000 years on how a standard taxonomy was created for all plants and living things.

  For some reason Anna Pavord likes to divide all the historical characters in "good guys" and "bad guys". May be ... (continue)

  Great book! Amazing illustrations.
  The author is very good at telling a long history of over 2000 years on how a standard taxonomy was created for all plants and living things.

  For some reason Anna Pavord likes to divide all the historical characters in "good guys" and "bad guys". May be it is true, but sometime reading the book I have the impression of watching an Hollywood movie. As in every respectable film, the good guys at the end prevail.

  The battle is not yet over! Take a look at Wikipedia (I'm talking about the English version) and you will see that the scientific notation is not used as a standard way to name plants. For reason I completely ignore Americans still prefer the ambiguous local notation over the scientific one (no surprise, they still discussing about creationism...).

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• English Books
• Paperback
• ISBN-10: 0747582440
• ISBN-13: 9780747582441
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Pub date: Oct 01, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 简体书

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