Ottaviani Alessandro
Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa , Napoli.
Med Secoli. 2003;15(2):291-317.
18th-century discussions on the generation of imperfect plants were often linked with the question of their position in the natural world, namely as whether they were part of the vegetable or mineral realm. As attested by the work of Joseph Gaertner, Johann Jakob Dillen, Pier Antonio Micheli and René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, as well as of Antonio Vallisneri, and Lazzaro Spallanzani, the different images of nature - continuity and discontinuity - adopted by naturalists influenced their solution to this question.
18世纪关于不完全植物起源的讨论常常与它们在自然界中的地位问题联系在一起，也就是它们究竟属于植物界还是矿物界。正如约瑟夫·盖特纳、约翰·雅各布·迪伦、皮耶尔·安东尼奥·米凯利、勒内-安托万·费尔肖·德·雷奥米尔、安东尼奥·瓦利斯内里以及拉扎罗·斯帕兰扎尼的著作所证明的那样，博物学家所采用的不同自然观——连续性和间断性——影响了他们对这个问题的解答。
