Author: Nehemiah Grew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
An Idea of a Phytological History Propounded
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
MAKERS OF BRITISH BOTANY;
Author: Various
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The literature of Botany can be traced back to a quite respectable antiquity, to the period of Aristotle (b.c. 384-322) who seems to have been the first to write of plants from the truly botanical point of view. Unfortunately, his special treatise on plants—θεωρία περὶ φυτῶν—is lost; and although there are many botanical passages scattered throughout his other writings (which have been collected by Wimmer, Phytologiae Aristotelicae Fragmenta, 1836), yet none of them gives any indication of what his ideas of classification may have been. An echo of them is perhaps to be found in the works of his favourite pupil, Theophrastus Eresius (b.c. 371-286), who among all his fellows was the most successful in pursuing the botanical studies that they had begun under the guidance of the master. Theophrastus left behind him two important, though incomplete, treatises on plants, the oldest that have survived: the more familiar Latin titles of which are De Historia Plantarum and [De Causis Plantarum]. The latter is essentially physiological, touching upon agriculture to a certain extent: the former is mainly morphological, structural, descriptive, and it is here that the first attempt at a classification of plants is to be found. In writing the Historia, Theophrastus was endeavouring, as a Greek philosopher rather than as a botanist, to "give account of" plants; and in order to do so he found it necessary to arrange them in some kind of order.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The literature of Botany can be traced back to a quite respectable antiquity, to the period of Aristotle (b.c. 384-322) who seems to have been the first to write of plants from the truly botanical point of view. Unfortunately, his special treatise on plants—θεωρία περὶ φυτῶν—is lost; and although there are many botanical passages scattered throughout his other writings (which have been collected by Wimmer, Phytologiae Aristotelicae Fragmenta, 1836), yet none of them gives any indication of what his ideas of classification may have been. An echo of them is perhaps to be found in the works of his favourite pupil, Theophrastus Eresius (b.c. 371-286), who among all his fellows was the most successful in pursuing the botanical studies that they had begun under the guidance of the master. Theophrastus left behind him two important, though incomplete, treatises on plants, the oldest that have survived: the more familiar Latin titles of which are De Historia Plantarum and [De Causis Plantarum]. The latter is essentially physiological, touching upon agriculture to a certain extent: the former is mainly morphological, structural, descriptive, and it is here that the first attempt at a classification of plants is to be found. In writing the Historia, Theophrastus was endeavouring, as a Greek philosopher rather than as a botanist, to "give account of" plants; and in order to do so he found it necessary to arrange them in some kind of order.
makers of british botany
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Makers of British Botany
Author: Francis Wall Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Aesthetic Science
Author: Alexander Wragge-Morley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668105X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668105X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.
Plant Cell Biology
Author: Chris Hawes
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199638659
Category : Botanical microscopy
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This new edition of Plant Cell Biology balances established techniques, including classical histochemistry and electron microscopy with new developments in the field.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199638659
Category : Botanical microscopy
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This new edition of Plant Cell Biology balances established techniques, including classical histochemistry and electron microscopy with new developments in the field.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (London)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Pamphlets in the Library of the Linnean Society of London
Author: Linnean Society of London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Bibliotheca Osleriana
Author: Sir William Osler
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773590501
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
During his tenure as the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1905-1919, Sir William Osler amassed a considerable library on the history of medicine and science. A Canadian native, Osler had studied at McGill University and decided to leave his collection of 7,600 items to its Faculty of Medicine. A catalogue, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, was compiled - a labour of love that took ten years to complete and involved W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill, and Archibald Malloch. Osler himself laid down the broad outlines of the catalogue and wrote many of the annotations.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773590501
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
During his tenure as the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1905-1919, Sir William Osler amassed a considerable library on the history of medicine and science. A Canadian native, Osler had studied at McGill University and decided to leave his collection of 7,600 items to its Faculty of Medicine. A catalogue, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, was compiled - a labour of love that took ten years to complete and involved W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill, and Archibald Malloch. Osler himself laid down the broad outlines of the catalogue and wrote many of the annotations.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description