S. M. Walters

The Shaping of Cambridge Botany

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A brief illustrated history of botanical and horticultural science in Cambridge, from its beginnings in medieval medical botany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781108002301
• ISBN-10: 1108002307
• Artikelnr.: 26969725

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction: botany, medicine and horticulture
2. Ray and the herborising tradition
3. Bradley and the horticultural tradition
4. The Martyns and the Linnaean tradition
5. Henslow and the rise of natural science
6. Babington, Vines and Lynch: the fragmentation of botany
7. The New Botany School: Marshall Ward and his successors
8. Whole-plant botany and the modern Botanic Garden
Bibliography
Index.