The Classification of Emotions

Abstract

There comes a time in the progression of any scientific endeavor when the elemental dimensions of a discipHne need to be more fully defined, elaborated, and differentiated. This was achieved in chemistry by the Russian chemist Dimitry Mendeleyev (1834–1907) in his construction of the periodic table of elements and in biology by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) in his classification of plants and animals.