514 i Index
Koelreuter, Joseph (Cont.)
theory of uniform liquid essences of,
416– 419, 417f
von Sachs on, 458n8
Kore, 185– 189, 188f, 208n15
K rateuas, 252– 253
Kybele (“Mother Goddess”), 236
Labat, 409
labyrinth, 139, 175n7
lactation, population control via, Upper
Paleolithic, 13– 15
Lady of Laussel, 17– 18, 17f, 22
Lady of the Horn, 17– 18, 17f
Laetitia, Anna, “To a Lady with Some Painted
Flowers,” 408
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de La
L’Homme Plant, 380– 384
The Machine Man, 381
The Natural History of the Soul, 381
Landsberger, Benno, 96– 97
Laqueur, Thomas, 6
Large Piece of Turf (D ü rer), 313f, 313
The Last Pagans of Iraq, 319n31
Latin names, 365
Laurenberg, Peter, 324– 325, 326f
Law of Independent Assortment, 496n24
Law of Segregation, 496n24
Layard, A. H., 120
Leapman, Michael, 360, 362
leopards, in Çatalhüyük wall reliefs, 57– 59, 58f
Lesczyc- Sumińsky, Jerome, 468– 469, 470f
Letters on the Elements of Botany: Addressed
to a Lady (Rousseau), 407
Leucippus of Miletus, 212
Leucothoe (Boswellia sacra), 191
Levant, 31t
Natufians at, as sedentary hunter- gatherers,
31– 33, 64– 65n8
L’Homme Plant (La Mettrie), 381
Liber, 232
Libera, 232
Liber de Simplicibus (Rinio), 311, 311f
libertinism, 380
Linnaean era (18th century), 350– 378
Bacon in, 359
French Royal Academy of Sciences in,
351– 352
Geoffroy plagiarism in, 356– 359
hermaphroditic flowers and bee pollination
in, 362– 363
hybridizers in, early, 359– 363
Bradley, Richard, 362– 363
Fairchild, Thomas, 360– 362, 376n29
Mather, Cotton, 359– 360, 376n24
Miller, Philip, 363
Jardin du Roi, 356– 359
Marchant in, 351– 352
Tournefort in, 351– 353, 356, 374– 375n3
Vaillant in, 351– 359, 375nn12– 14
Linnaeus, Carolus, 350– 378, 364– 374
binomial nomenclature of, 365
classification of
“natural” system of, 364– 366, 376nn36– 39
sexual system of, 366– 370, 367f,
377nn45, 51, 58
on crosses between orders, 373, 378n69
on cryptogams, 465– 466
dioecious plants of, 347n48
Disquisitio de Sexu Plantarum, 3 74
on divine justice as oeconomy of nature,
391, 402n30
Flora Uplandica, 366
Fundamenta Fructificationis, 373
Latin names of, 365
Mammalia of, 378n68
medulla– cortex theory of, 372– 373,
377– 378nn66– 67
Metamorphosis Plantarum, 372, 446
monoecious plants of, 347n48
Nuptiae Publicae Plantarum, 465
nuptial bed metaphor of, 354– 355, 368, 375n12
origin of species theory of, 373– 374, 378n69
on Peloria, speciation, and matrilineal
descent, 370– 373, 372f,
377– 378nn66– 68
Philosophia Botanica, 365
Plantae Hybridae, 3 74
Praeludia Sponsaliorum Plantarum, 366, 366f
Rousseau on, 370
on sexual theory of plants, 364
Siegesbeck’s attacks on, 387– 391, 402n22,
403nn28, 30, 404– 405
Sponsalia Plantarum, 406
Systema Naturae, 365, 368– 369
Tragopogon hybrid of, 374, 414, 416, 418