Download or read book Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England written by Leah Knight and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leah Knight argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other in historically specific ways. Knight's in-depth readings of sixteenth-century herbals are incorporated in a narrative which establishes the broader context for the interpenetration of plants and writing in the period's cultural practices to illuminate a complex interplay between materials and discourses rarely considered in tandem today.
Download or read book Modern Botany written by N. Malaviya and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is a text book on modern topics of Botany. The first chapter of this book is on plasma membrane, wherein, details of transport mechanism is discussed. There are three sections in this book. Section I deals with the biochemistry and metabolism. Section II covers developmental physiology and the Section III is on plant biotechnology. In this section, Ti plasmid, transposable elements and transgenic plants are discussed in details. In this book there are separate chapters on bioinformatics and biosignalling. The text of this book is based on biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects, along with the modern and emerging ideas in Botany.
Download or read book Modern Botany Or A Popular Introduction to the Natural System of Plants written by Mrs. Loudon (Jane) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonial Botany written by Londa Schiebinger and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.
Download or read book Chapters in Modern Botany written by Sir Patrick Geddes and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plants an Introduction to Modern Botany written by V.A. Greulach and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spirit of Botany written by Jill McKeever and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually entrancing and esoteric guide to connecting with plants through the senses. In The Spirit of Botany, artist and perfumer Jill McKeever reveals her personal rituals and creative methods of using aromatic botanical materials in incense, perfume, tisanes, ritual baths, and much more. In addition to dozens of recipes, McKeever offers her reflections on sustainability, synesthesia, creativity, and her own experience of turning her passion for this work into the indie perfume brand, For Strange Women. Appropriate for hobbyists and career alchemists alike, The Spirit of Botany features inspiring photography and a mysterious aesthetic, immersing readers in the countless biological, emotional, energetic, and spiritual benefits of aromatherapy and herbalism.
Download or read book Plants an Introduction to Modern Botany written by V.A. Greulach and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Download or read book A Textbook of Botany Angiosperms written by BP Pandey and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-31 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of Angiosperms by discussing its vital components, Taxonomy, Anatomy, Embryology including Tissue Culture and Economic Botany. Written in a simple and lucid style, it has abundance of relevant illustrations with self-explanatory diagrams. Information on new angiospermic families enhances the utility of the book. It caters primarily to the requirements of undergraduate students of Botany and would also be a useful source of reference for postgraduate students & candidates appearing for several competitive examinations.
Download or read book Ancient Botany written by Gavin Hardy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin have brought together their botanical and historical knowledge to produce this unique overview of ancient botany. It examines all the founding texts of botanical science, such as Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants, Dioscorides' Materia Medica, Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Nicolaus of Damascus' On Plants, and Galen' On Simple Remedies, but also includes lesser known texts ranging from the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, as well as some material evidence. The authors adopt a thematic approach rather than a chronological one, considering important issues such as the definition of a plant, nomenclature, classifications, physiology, the link between plants and their environment, and the numerous usages of plants in the ancient world. The book also takes care to place ancient botany in its historical, social and economic context. The authors have explained all technical botanical terms and ancient history notions, and as a result, this work will appeal to historians of ancient science, medicine and technology; classicists; and botanists interested in the history of their discipline.
Download or read book Chapters in Modern Botany written by Patrick Geddes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chapters in Modern Botany This little book makes no attempt to condense a survey of its science; even within the fields through which it passes it seeks only to be suggestive, not exhaustive; its chapters have actually grown out of the syllabus and notes of University Extension Lectures, with their necessary limitations. In matter and form its appeal is to the general reader; yet, in method and spirit, to the student also, - in some measure even to the teacher. In botany, as in other studies, educational methods alter with the times. In the Linnean period the "best botanist was he who knew the most plants," however little of each; while a later and still dominant school has founded upon Cuvier a type-system which makes him know much, - but of few. Hence the student has come no longer to load his vasculum and memory in a single vacation, with all things from the cedar to the hyssop; but, seeing that cedar and hyssop have been selected as types by the highest authority, scrutinises these, and these only, for his term. Analysis is great, and the anatomist is its prophet; yet such Elementary Biology is but Necrology, its so-called "life-histories" being but histories of form. It is the misfortune of biology that Darwin was not a teacher. 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.
Download or read book Chapters in Modern Botany written by Patrick Geddes and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collection of essays by one of the most important botanists of the 20th century, Chapters in Modern Botany provides a sweeping overview of the field, from the structure and function of plant cells to the complex interactions between plants and their environment. With a breadth of knowledge that is matched only by his passion for the natural world, Patrick Geddes inspires readers to see the beauty and complexity of the plants that surround us. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Leonhart Fuchs The New Herbal of 1543 written by Werner Dressendörfer and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his 1543 herb catalog, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This fresh reprint is based on Fuchs's personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, cactus, and tobacco.
Download or read book Outlines Of Botany written by R.J. Harvey Gibson and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book College Botany Volume II written by BP Pandey and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is contain Pteridophyta,Gymnosperms and Palaeobotany compilation work and embodies a fairly comprehensive treatment of the fundamental facts and aspects of the subject. This book will serve as an introduction to Botany to the beginners in this field.
Download or read book Botany for Degree Students Year II written by BP Pandey and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Degree Level Students
