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  1. Seeing Plants as Animals: Analogical Reasoning in Nehemiah Grew's Anatomy of Plants(1682).Justin Begley - 2023 - Centaurus 65 (4):849-876.
    The present article is the first to investigate in any detail the plant–animal analogies that are integral to Nehemiah Grew's Anatomy of Plants (1682). It focuses on three analogies that Grew used (either productively or critically) to produce novel accounts of vegetative processes: those between sperm and pollen, blood and sap, and mouths and roots. I suggest that Grew's analogical approach and specific mappings allowed him, on the one hand, to “see” plant features and functions that other botanists had overlooked, (...)
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