Revolutionary Botany
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Revolutionary Botany
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Author : Arthur Harry Church
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1981
Revolutionary Botany written by Arthur Harry Church and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Darwin S Most Wonderful Plants
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Author : Ken Thompson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-10-07
Darwin S Most Wonderful Plants written by Ken Thompson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-07 with Nature categories.
For many people, the story of Charles Darwin goes like this: he ventured to the Galapagos Islands on the Beagle, was inspired by the biodiversity of the birds he saw there, and immediately returned home to write his theory of evolution. But this simplified narrative is inaccurate and lacking: it leaves out a major part of Darwin’s legacy. He published On the Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages. And much of his life was spent experimenting with and observing plants. Darwin was a brilliant and revolutionary botanist whose observations and theories were far ahead of his time. With Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants, biologist and gardening expert Ken Thompson restores this important aspect of Darwin’s biography while also delighting in the botanical world that captivated the famous scientist. Thompson traces how well Darwin’s discoveries have held up, revealing that many are remarkably long-lasting. Some findings are only now being confirmed and extended by high-tech modern research, while some have been corrected through recent analysis. We learn from Thompson how Darwin used plants to shape his most famous theory and then later how he used that theory to further push the boundaries of botanical knowledge. We also get to look over Darwin’s shoulder as he labors, learning more about his approach to research and his astonishing capacity for hard work. Darwin’s genius was to see the wonder and the significance in the ordinary and mundane, in the things that most people wouldn’t look at twice. Both Thompson and Darwin share a love for our most wonderful plants and the remarkable secrets they can unlock. This book will instill that same joy in casual gardeners and botany aficionados alike.
Plants And Politics In Padua During The Age Of Revolution 1820 1848
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Author : Ariane Dröscher
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-22
Plants And Politics In Padua During The Age Of Revolution 1820 1848 written by Ariane Dröscher and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-22 with History categories.
This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution. It explores the lives and thoughts of two brothers, the lawyer Andrea Meneghini and the botanist GiuseppeMeneghini, illustrating the unspoken dreams of progress and a new social order, but also sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between the Paduan elite and Austrian rule before the 1848 revolution. A closer look at park designs, gardening associations and networks, fl ower exhibitions, agricultural societies, organicist metaphors, and botanical research on the organization of living bodies opens up unexpected parallels between actors and ideas of two apparently distant areas: botany and political economy.
A Lab For All Seasons
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Author : Sharon E. Kingsland
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-25
A Lab For All Seasons written by Sharon E. Kingsland and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-25 with Science categories.
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline Laboratory innovation since the mid-twentieth century has powered advances in the study of plant adaptation, evolution, and ecosystem function. The phytotron, an integrated complex of controlled-environment greenhouse and laboratory spaces, invented by Frits W. Went in the 1950s, set off a worldwide laboratory movement and transformed the plant sciences. Sharon Kingsland explores this revolution through a comparative study of work in the United States, France, Australia, Israel, the USSR, and Hungary. These advances in botanical research energized physiological plant ecology. Case studies explore the development of phytotron spinoffs such as mobile laboratories, rhizotrons, and ecotrons. Scientific problems include the significance of plant emissions of volatile organic compounds, symbiosis between plants and soil fungi, and the discovery of new pathways for photosynthesis as an adaptation to hot, dry climates. The advancement of knowledge through synthesis is a running theme: linking disciplines, combining laboratory and field research, and moving across ecological scales from leaf to ecosystem. The book also charts the history of modern scientific responses to the emerging crisis of food insecurity in the era of global warming.
Linnaeus In Italy
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Author : Marco Beretta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Linnaeus In Italy written by Marco Beretta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Plants And Politics In Padua During The Age Of Revolution 1820 1848
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Author : Ariane Dröscher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Plants And Politics In Padua During The Age Of Revolution 1820 1848 written by Ariane Dröscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution. It explores the lives and thoughts of two brothers, the lawyer Andrea Meneghini and the botanist Giuseppe Meneghini, illustrating the unspoken dreams of progress and a new social order, but also sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between the Paduan elite and Austrian rule before the 1848 revolution. A closer look at park designs, gardening associations and networks, fl ower exhibitions, agricultural societies, organicist metaphors, and botanical research on the organization of living bodies opens up unexpected parallels between actors and ideas of two apparently distant areas: botany and political economy.
The Founding Gardeners
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Author : Andrea Wulf
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-03
The Founding Gardeners written by Andrea Wulf and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with History categories.
A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America. Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams and Jefferson exactly fifty years to the day afterwards, these stories that weave the political, the personal and the botanical and are in turns funny, fascinating and moving. The Founding Gardeners shows that it is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American nation without considering their love of gardening.
The Brother Gardeners
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Author : Andrea Wulf
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-11
The Brother Gardeners written by Andrea Wulf and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-11 with History categories.
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds... Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain forever: Philip Miller, author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus, whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour. This is the story of these men - friends, rivals, enemies, united by a passion for plants. Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire and the uncharted world beyond, The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners.
Institutes Of Botany Containing Accurate Compleat And Easy Descriptions Of All The Known Genera Of Plants
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Author : Colin Milne
language : en
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Release Date : 2018-04-25
Institutes Of Botany Containing Accurate Compleat And Easy Descriptions Of All The Known Genera Of Plants written by Colin Milne and has been published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-25 with categories.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T080796 "The second part commences at p.135, it has a separate title-page dated 1772. The work is incomplete, without the translation of the Genera plantarum, and the 'Synopsis' extends only to a portion of Tetrandria Monogynia." (Henrey). London: sold by W. Griffin; J. Nourse; P. Elmsley; Messrs. Richardson and Urquart; F. Noble; and J. Robson, 1771-72. [2],4, [2],134;[2],135-302p.; 4°
The Botanical Revolution
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Author : Thomas Gaskell Tutin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Botanical Revolution written by Thomas Gaskell Tutin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Botany categories.
