The growing number of known plants, and the need repeatedly to correct their names and their taxonomic attributions, demanded strategies for combining the static nature of a printed book with the fluctuating nature of the information it contained. From the second half of the seventeenth century botanists increasingly relied on publishing multiple updated editions of a book instead of attempting to correct, polish, and thus delay the appearance of a manuscript until, in the author's opinion, it was finished. Provisional by nature, iterative books offered a solution. They were transient, open-ended and open to intervention, whether by one or multiple authors. Taking as an example the posthumous publication of orphaned material and manuscripts, a widespread phenomenon in eighteenth-century botany, this essay will focus on the sequence of iterative books that were published during the first half of the eighteenth century, based on the herbaria and papers left behind by the German botanist Paul Hermann (1646-95).

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迭代书籍：十八世纪植物学中的死后出版

越来越多的已知植物，以及反复更正它们的名称和分类属性的需要，需要将印刷书籍的静态性质与其所包含信息的波动性质结合起来的策略。从 17 世纪下半叶开始，植物学家越来越依赖于出版一本书的多个更新版本，而不是试图纠正、润色并因此延迟手稿的出现，直到作者认为它已经完成。本质上是临时性的，迭代书籍提供了一个解决方案。它们是短暂的、开放式的，并且可以由一位或多位作者进行干预。以遗弃材料和手稿的遗书出版为例，这是 18 世纪植物学中普遍存在的现象，