Avant-propos

Abstract

Based on the study of literary and scientific works as well as travel accounts from the second half of the 18th century to the 19th century, this issue shows how the order of nature was conceived both within the framework of systematics and systemics. A holistic vision of the living prevails, according to which the unity of the living results from the relationships and interactions between all beings, thus bound together. 

Keywords: animals, ecology, metaphor, metonymy, environment, order of nature, philosophy of nature, plants, unity.