{"id":1339,"date":"2020-04-11T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/?page_id=1339"},"modified":"2020-08-20T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:25:31","slug":"whites-taxonomy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/?page_id=1339","title":{"rendered":"White&#8217;s Taxonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This visual of Taylor White\u2019s land fowl arrangement shows that the naturalist had come up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/?page_id=17#jumpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0071a1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">taxonomical organization <\/span><\/a>of his own. White used the 10th or 12th edition of Linnaeus\u2019\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/10277#page\/3\/mode\/1up\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0071a1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Systema Naturae<\/span><\/a><\/em> to name the species in his collection, but did not necessarily agree with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linnean.org\/learning\/who-was-linnaeus\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0071a1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Linnaeus\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0071a1\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <\/span>classification. This graph shows how White was dividing the order of the\u00a0<em>Picae<\/em>\u00a0in two distinct groups, starting his classification with Parrots, Toucans, and Woodpeckers when most ornithologies&#8211;including Linnaeus\u2019 and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/129443#page\/7\/mode\/1up\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0071a1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Willughby\u2019s<\/span><\/a>&#8211;started with\u00a0<em>Accipitres<\/em>\u00a0(Falcons and Owls). Considering we do not have written evidence of how White reflected on taxonomy, the arrangement of the plates gives us an indication of his working practice and scientific thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-12-1024x709.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1345\" width=\"738\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-12-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-12-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-12-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-12-1536x1064.png 1536w, https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-12-1140x789.png 1140w, https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-12.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;C\u00e9line Stantina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This visual of Taylor White\u2019s land fowl arrangement shows that the naturalist had come up with a taxonomical organization of his own. White used the 10th or 12th edition of Linnaeus\u2019\u00a0Systema Naturae to name the species in his collection, but did not necessarily agree with Linnaeus\u2019 classification. This graph shows how White was dividing the order of the\u00a0Picae\u00a0in two distinct groups, starting his classification with Parrots, Toucans, and Woodpeckers when most ornithologies&#8211;including Linnaeus\u2019 and Willughby\u2019s&#8211;started with\u00a0Accipitres\u00a0(Falcons and Owls). Considering we do not have written evidence of how White reflected on taxonomy, the arrangement of the plates gives us an indication of his working practice and scientific thinking. &#8211;C\u00e9line Stantina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1339","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylor-white.library.mcgill.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}