Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?. How eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order, Hardback/Susannah (Affiliated scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge) Gibson

Does the natural world divide neatly into 'animal, vegetable, mineral'? Discoveries in the 18th century threw the question wide open; debates raged, and fed into wider religious and political battles concerning God's creation and the natural social order.