Quinarianism after Darwin's Origin: The Circular System of William Hincks

Author: Coggon J.

Source: Journal of the History of Biology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2002 , pp. 5-42(38)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

As late as 1870 a Toronto professor, William Hincks, schooled pupils in a circular system of classification. Although his system was derived from Macleay's quinarianism of the 1820s, Hincks had altered it in several ways, influenced by botanical morphology. He persistently promoted it throughout the 1860s as an alternative to Darwinian evolution.

Keywords: analogy; Canada – nineteenth century; floral diagrams; Hincks; idealism; Lindley; Macleay; Natural history – Classification; quinarianism; Swainson; symmetry; Toronto

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada

Publication date: 2002-01-01

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