Thinking with images about the natural order between 1750 and 1900, Four Case Studies

Kees van Putten's doctoral thesis, "Thinking with Images about the Natural Order between 1750 and 1900: Four Case Studies," defended at Radboud University Nijmegen in November 2022, explores how naturalists utilized visual representations to conceptualize and construct ideas about the order of nature. The work, a compilation of articles published in Early Science and Medicine and the Journal of History of Biology, focuses on the role of imagery in the thought processes of thinkers such as Linnaeus and Darwin