Author: F. W. Oliver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
First published in 1913, this volume contains biographies of influential botanists written by distinguished botanists of the period. A discussion of each botanist's life and scientific contribution is provided, with each contributor specialising in the same botanical area as the subject.
Makers of British Botany
Author: F. W. Oliver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
First published in 1913, this volume contains biographies of influential botanists written by distinguished botanists of the period. A discussion of each botanist's life and scientific contribution is provided, with each contributor specialising in the same botanical area as the subject.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
First published in 1913, this volume contains biographies of influential botanists written by distinguished botanists of the period. A discussion of each botanist's life and scientific contribution is provided, with each contributor specialising in the same botanical area as the subject.
Makers of British Botany
Author: Francis Wall Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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MAKERS OF BRITISH BOTANY
Author: F. W. OLIVER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033526613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033526613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Science and Colonial Expansion
Author: Lucile H. Brockway
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300091434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants--cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal--to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political, and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300091434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants--cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal--to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political, and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.
Makers of British Botany; A Collection of Biographies by Living Botanists, Ed. by F.W. Oliver
Author: Francis Wall Oliver (1864-Ed)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants
Author: William Baxter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Makers of British Botany
Author: F. W. Oliver
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331551402
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Excerpt from Makers of British Botany: A Collection of Biographies by Living Botanists HE origin and scope of the present book will be found fully indicated in the Introduction, so that it is not needful to refer to them here. One change in the original scheme of the work has been made during its passage through the press, viz. The inclusion of an additional chapter from the pen of Prof. F. O. Bower dealing with the life of the late Sir Joseph Hooker. Our veteran botanist passed away on Dec. 10, 1911, in his 95th year, and in him botany loses its outstanding personality as well as its principal link with the past. The history of botany in this country during the Victorian period, when it comes to be written, must of necessity be woven around the life of this great man. For the excellent index to the book the reader is indebted to Dr E. De Fraine, whose. Care, and good judgment in this matter will be fully appreciated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331551402
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Excerpt from Makers of British Botany: A Collection of Biographies by Living Botanists HE origin and scope of the present book will be found fully indicated in the Introduction, so that it is not needful to refer to them here. One change in the original scheme of the work has been made during its passage through the press, viz. The inclusion of an additional chapter from the pen of Prof. F. O. Bower dealing with the life of the late Sir Joseph Hooker. Our veteran botanist passed away on Dec. 10, 1911, in his 95th year, and in him botany loses its outstanding personality as well as its principal link with the past. The history of botany in this country during the Victorian period, when it comes to be written, must of necessity be woven around the life of this great man. For the excellent index to the book the reader is indebted to Dr E. De Fraine, whose. Care, and good judgment in this matter will be fully appreciated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Contemporary Botanical Artists
Author: Shirley Sherwood
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN: 9780297822707
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN: 9780297822707
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.
The Concise British Flora in Colour
Author: William Keble Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718114787
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Detailed guide to identification for botanists and students.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718114787
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Detailed guide to identification for botanists and students.
Medical Botany
Author: William WOODVILLE
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description