Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England Volume 1: From its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System - Couverture souple

Pulteney, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108037321 ISBN 13 : 9781108037327

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1790, this two-volume examination of the development of botanical study in Britain remains of great interest.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Richard Pulteney (1730–1801) was a Leicestershire physician whose medical career suffered both from a lack of aristocratic patronage and from his dissenting religious background. However, his lifelong interest in botany and natural history, and particularly his work on the new Linnaean system of botanical classification, led to publications in the Gentleman's Magazine and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1762. His book on Linnaeus (also reissued in this series), first published in 1782, was later considered to be of great significance for the acceptance in England of the Linnaean system, and this two-volume work, published in 1790, is still relevant to the study of the history of botany. Volume 1 begins in 'primaeval' and 'druidical' times and continues to the seventeenth century, including the first printed herbals and the work of the great botanist John Ray.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108037321
• ISBN 13: 9781108037327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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