page_title: Charles Bonnet
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Bonnet
caption_attribution_description: Charles Bonnet's Chain of being
context_page_description: Charles Bonnet was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant.
  Bonnet was from a French family driven into the Geneva region by the religious persecution in the 16th century.
context_section_description: Charles Bonnet (French: [bɔnɛ]; 13 March 1720 – 20 May 1793) was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant.
  Bonnet was from a French family driven into the Geneva region by the religious persecution in the 16th century.
caption: Chain of being from Traité d'insectologie, 1745
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