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ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLANTS
CONTAINING THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC BOTANY; NOMENCLATURE, THEORY OF CLASSIFICATION, PHYTHOGRAPHY; ANATOMY, CHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, AND DISEASES OF PLANTS |
| By: |
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Kurt Sprengel |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1139096087 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781139096089 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 May, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
Published in 1820 and translated into English in 1821, this treatise of scientific botany provided significant advances on previous theories. |
| Synopsis: |
This treatise on scientific botany brings together the works of two leading European scientists from the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) and the German botanist and physicist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766-1833). First published in German in 1820, it was almost immediately translated (anonymously) into English and published in Edinburgh by Blackwood in 1821. This collaborative volume includes three chapters from de Candolle's Theorie elementaire de la botanique published in Paris in 1819, while the remaining texts and the preface were written by Sprengel; at the time, it provided significant advances on previous botanical theories such as the work of German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812). A fascinating document on the evolution of botanical science, the book contains a practical section detailing the characteristics of over forty plants, as well as eight illustrations. |
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8 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
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Non-returnable |
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