Download or read book Botanical Riches written by Richard Aitken and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an visually sumptuous book due to its extensive and beautiful images from collections in the State Library of Victoria. Aitken has traced the history and art of botany from the ancient civilisations up to the present day. He considers the discoveries of the potential of the plant to provide food, medicine, flavouring and decoration. Societies evolved around their possession of natural resources which they marketed throughout the world. Mercantile communities became extremely wealthy. In addition to the detailed and stunning illustrations the author has produced a lively and thorough book of history, nature, culture and art.

Download or read book Botanical Riches written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Botanical miscellany written by William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plants From Roots to Riches written by Kathy Willis and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our peculiarly British obsession with gardens goes back a long way and Plants: From Roots to Riches takes us back to where it all began. Across 25 vivid episodes, Kathy Willis, Kew's charismatic Head of Science, shows us how the last 250 years transformed our relationship with plants. Behind the scenes at the Botanical Gardens all kinds of surprising things have been going on. As the British Empire painted the atlas red, explorers, adventurers and scientists brought the most interesting specimens and information back to London. From the discovery of Botany Bay to the horrors of the potato famine, from orchid hunters to quinine smugglers, from Darwin's experiments to the unexpected knowledge unlocked by the 1987 hurricane, understanding how plants work has changed our history and could safeguard our future. In the style of A History of the World in 100 Objects, each chapter tells a separate story, but, gathered together, a great picture unfolds, of our most remarkable science, botany. Plants: From Roots to Riches is a beautifully designed book, packed with 200 images in both colour and black and white from Kew's amazing archives, some never reproduced before. Kathy Willis and Carolyn Fry, the acclaimed popular-science writer, have also added all kinds of fascinating extra history, heroes and villains, memorable stories and interviews. Their book takes us on an exciting rollercoaster ride through our past and future and shows us how much plants really do matter.

Download or read book Botanical Miscellany written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Botanical Cabinet written by Conrad Loddiges & Sons and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Botanical Register written by Sydenham Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Botanical Gazette written by John Merle Coulter and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes research in all areas of the plant sciences.

Download or read book Visible Empire written by Daniela Bleichmar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.

Download or read book The Botanical register written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Name of Plants written by Sandra Knapp and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly illustrated meeting with thirty plants and their inspiring namesakes Shakespeare famously asserted that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and that’s as true for common garden roses as it is for the Megacorax, a genus of evening primroses. Though it may not sound like it, the Megacorax was actually christened in honor of famed American botanist Peter Raven, its name a play on the Latin words for “great raven.” In this lush and lively book, celebrated botanist Sandra Knapp explores the people whose names have been immortalized in plant genera, presenting little-known stories about both the featured plants and their eponyms alongside photographs and botanical drawings from the collections of London’s Natural History Museum. Readers will see familiar plants in a new light after learning the tales of heroism, inspiration, and notoriety that led to their naming. Take, for example, nineteenth-century American botanist Alice Eastwood, after whom the yellow aster—Eastwoodia elegans—is named. Eastwood was a pioneering plant collector who also singlehandedly saved irreplaceable specimens from the California Academy of Sciences during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Or more recently, the fern genus Gaga, named for the pop star and actress Lady Gaga, whose verdant heart-shaped ensemble at the 2010 Grammy Awards bore a striking resemblance to a giant fern gametophyte. Knapp’s subjects range from Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin (Darwinia), and legendary French botanist Pierre Magnol—who lends his name to the magnolia tree—to US founding figures like George Washington (Washingtonia) and Benjamin Franklin (Franklinia). Including granular details on the taxonomy and habitats for thirty plants alongside its vibrant illustrations, this book is sure to entertain and enlighten any plant fan.

Download or read book The London Journal of Botany Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as Recommend Themselves by Their Novelty Rarity History Or Uses written by Sir William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plant Discoveries written by Sandra Knapp and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of plants and flowers are examined using profiles of twenty plant families and hundreds of botanical paintings from the archives of the Natural History Museum, London.

Download or read book The London Journal of Botany written by William Jackson Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The London journal of botany written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Magazine of Horticulture Botany and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gardener s Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: