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Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing

and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's
Philosophia Botanica
M.D. Eddy
Pages 227-252 | Published online: 11 May 2010

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Abstract

While much has been written on the cultural and intellectual antecedents that
gave rise to Carolus Linnaeuss herbarium and his Systema Naturae, the tools
that he used to transform his raw observations into nomenclatural terms and
categories have been neglected. Focusing on the Philosophia Botanica, the
popular classification handbook that he published in 1751, it can be shown
that Linnaeus cleverly ordered and reordered the work by employing

commonplacing techniques that had been part of print culture since the
Renaissance. Indeed, the functional adaptability of commonplace heads
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allowed him to split and combine the books chapters and tables and played a
notable conceptual role in the way in which he spatialized words and, to a
certain extent, specimens.

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