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Published by TAURUS · Mathematics and science · ISBN 9788430623921

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A history of science that follows two eighteenth-century men of the same age and opposite temperament who set out to identify and describe all life on Earth: the Swede Carl Linnaeus, a devout physician, and Georges-Louis de Buffon, a French aristocrat who ran the Jardin du Roi. Jason Roberts compares how they worked and how they saw nature, one as a fixed order and the other as something in constant flux.

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Who it's for
For readers of popular science and history who enjoy science told through lives and rivalries, and for anyone curious about where words such as 'mammal' or 'Homo sapiens' come from. The story reaches the present day.
Why people still read it
It won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and was well received by English-language critics, from The New York Times Book Review to The Wall Street Journal.

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