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The nineteenth century saw the heyday of amateur natural history, driven by several factors including Linnaean classification that made understanding the living world easier. The popular idea of natural theology emphasized learning about nature as a way to learn about God.
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The nineteenth century saw the heyday of amateur natural history, driven by several factors including Linnaean classification that made understanding the living world easier. The popular idea of natural theology emphasized learning about nature as a way to learn about God.
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The development of lichenology in the history of botany
Bryologist, 2017Abstract Lichens have been a difficult group for botanists to understand. Only in the 20th century did they find their correct position among the fungi. This paper outlines the long and rather complicated course from Theophrastos, the first person to use the term lichen (about 300 B.C.) to the molecular evidence by Gargas and coworkers in 1995 that ...
Per Magnus Jørgensen
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HISTORY OF BOTANY IN THE TROPICS: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
TAXON, 1970SummaryThe development of botany in the tropics falls into four periods: (i) the age of the pioneer botanical explorers, which extended into the 19th century, (ii) the age from then to the First World War in which the plant resources of the tropics were developed mainly by colonial governments, (iii) the period between the two World Wars when improved ...
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History and Philosophy of Early Modern Botany
2019info:eu-repo/semantics ...
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Hops—Their botany, history, production and utilization
Economic Botany, 1952The female cone-like inflorescences oi this vine are composed of scales covered with glandular hairs which produce, among other compounds, the bitter principle which has long been an indispensable ingredient in the brewing of beer. These largescale catkins have been used also in medicine because of their sedative and soporific properties, and as a ...
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The natural history of western Botany Bay
2010Western Botany Bay is an extensively urbanized area only 10 kilometres from the Sydney CBD. The residential and light industrial estates that span the landscape conceal a rich landscape that was once a major food source for early Sydney. The hinterland of western Botany Bay was not settled until relatively late because access to the area was difficult ...
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Gardens as Laboratories. The History of Botany through the History of Gardens
2017The importance of gardens as places to cure the mind from sad thoughts was acknowledged by René Descartes (1596-1650) in his epistolary exchange with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680). The claim was not unconventional and it marked a continuity in the representation of gardens as spaces of philosophical inspiration throughout Antiquity, the ...
baldassarri Fabrizio, Oana matei
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