In multiple areas of life, art and thought, the 18th century was an age of order, classification, laws, formulas, symmetry and grids. Everywhere you look, you find attempts to frame and categorize the ...
Jason Roberts tells the story of the scholars who tried to taxonomize the world. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum, the director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at M.I.T., is the author of “The ...