Specimen Academicum De Oeconomia Naturae Quod Consensu Ampliss Facult Med In Reg Academia

by Carl Linnaeus Isaac Isaacson Biberg

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First edition

Uppsala: np, 1749. First edition, extremely rare, of Linnaeus’ pioneer dissertation which created the science of ecology. “This essay was the first sketch of a science of ecology. Linnaeus used his economy-of-nature concept as an organising principle to unify an important, but previously amorphous, part of natural history. In so doing, he was also attempting to transform an important background concept into the

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