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Scritti di antiquaria e botanica (1586-1602)
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ISBN: 8883340280 Year: 2000 Publisher: Roma : Viella,


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Between seasons and science : commissioned by the Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands to commemorate the 150-year jubilee.
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ISBN: 9051031009 Year: 1995 Publisher: Amsterdam SPB Academic Publishing

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History of botanical science : an account of the development of botany from ancient times to the present day.
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ISBN: 0125083823 0125083807 9780125083829 9780125083805 Year: 1981 Publisher: London Academic press


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Geschichte der Botanik : Leben und Leistung Grosser Forscher
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ISBN: 3437204890 3642394000 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin, Germany : Springer Berlin Heidelberg,

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Wie für alle Wissenschaftsgebiete gilt auch für die Botanik, dass ein vertieftes Verständnis des gegenwärtigen Standes dieser Disziplin nur durch die Kenntnis ihrer historischen Entwicklung möglich ist. Die zweite, bearbeitete Auflage der »Geschichte der Botanik« beschreibt in über 20 Kapiteln den Werdegang der Botanik von Aristoteles über Linné bis ans Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Schwerpunkt der Darstellung liegt dabei in der biographischen Würdigung überragender Forscher dieses Faches. Der Hauptteil des Werkes wird durch einen umfangreichen Anmerkungsteil ergänzt, der genaue Quellenangaben, bibliographisch vollständige Zitate der Originalwerke und Hinweise auf Biographien enthält. Zahlreiche Abbildungen illustrieren die Übersicht in anschaulicher Weise.


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Linnaeus : de ordening van plant en dier
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ISBN: 9085710723 9789085710721 Year: 2007 Publisher: Diemen Amsterdam Veen Magazines Natuurwetenschap & Techniek

Herbals : their origin and evolution : a chapter in the history of botany 1470-1670
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ISBN: 0521338794 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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Herbals deal primarily with medicinal and culinary herbs, their real and supposed properties and virtues, and in origin they go back at least to the Ancient Greeks. During the 16th and 17th centuries they developed into attractively illustrated printed books, the forerunners of modern botanical and pharmaceutical textbooks. Agnes Arber's Herbals (first published in 1912, much revised in 1938) stands as the major survey of the period 1470 to 1670 when botany evolved into a scientific discipline separate from herbalism, a development reflected in contemporary herbals. Every work on herbals since 1912 has been indebted to Arber's classic. The present volume in the Cambridge Science Classics series, while retaining her main text unaltered, supplements this with two of her later writings on herbals, provides a biographical introduction, greatly extends the bibliography and has annotations modifying the original text through later enquiry. This added material will make this re-issue invaluable to librarians, historians of science, book-lovers and all with an interest in the early development of botany, pharmacy and book production, even if they already possess the long-unobtainable 1938 edition.

Colonial botany : science, commerce, and politics in the early modern world.
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ISBN: 9780812220094 0812220099 0812293479 Year: 2004 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press

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In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of scholarly essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the rise of modern botany as a story of taxonomies and "pure" systems of classification. Charting a new map of botany along colonial coordinates, reaching from Europe to the New World, India, Asia, and other points on the globe, "Colonial Botany" explores how the study, naming, cultivation, and marketing of rare and beautiful plants resulted from and shaped European voyages, conquests, global trade, and scientific exploration. From the earliest voyages of discovery, naturalists sought profitable plants for king and country, personal and corporate gain. Costly spices and valuable medicinal plants such as nutmeg, tobacco, sugar, Peruvian bark, peppers, cloves, cinnamon, and tea ranked prominently among the motivations for European voyages of discovery. At the same time, colonial profits depended largely on natural historical exploration and the precise identification and effective cultivation of profitable plants. This volume breaks new ground by treating the development of the science of botany in its colonial context and situating the early modern exploration of the plant world at the volatile nexus of science, commerce, and state politics. Written by scholars as international as their subjects, "Colonial Botany" uncovers an emerging cultural history of plants and botanical practices in Europe and its possessions.

Imperial nature : Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian science.
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ISBN: 9780226207919 0226207919 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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