This book compares the works of Jonston and Aldrovandi to address the claim that Cartesian science had to make way for the non-mechanistic study of living things. It claims that Bonnet and Tournefort, who espouse a "System" and a "Method" that seem diametrically opposed, both rely on the simple enumeration of visible differences. This book posits that Linnaean taxonomy is fundamentally "interwoven with a theory of (*) words." This book argues that Kant's philosophy allowed for the modern concept of "man." It proposes that linguistics, biology, and economics are based on concepts like "life" that did not exist in the Classical Age, so it instead analyses "general grammar," "analysis of wealth," and "natural history." This book was the first to study "what it was possible" to think at a point in time, which it calls the era's épistémè, using an "archaeological" 
This book compares the works of Jonston and Aldrovandi to address the claim that Cartesian science had to make way for the non-mechanistic study of living things. It claims that Bonnet and Tournefort, who espouse a "System" and a "Method" that seem diametrically opposed, both rely on the simple enumeration of visible differences. This book posits that Linnaean taxonomy is fundamentally "interwoven with a theory of (*) words." This book argues that Kant's philosophy allowed for the modern concept of "man." It proposes that linguistics, biology, and economics are based on concepts like "life" that did not exist in the Classical Age, so it instead analyses "general grammar," "analysis of wealth," and "natural history." This book was the first to study "what it was possible" to think at a point in time, which it calls the era's épistémè, using an "archaeological" method. For 10 points, name this book that begins by studying representation in Las Meninas, a work of Michel Foucault.
This book compares the works of Jonston and Aldrovandi to address the claim that Cartesian science had to make way for the non-mechanistic study of living things.
The Order of Things [or Les mots et les choses] 