Author: Benjamin Daydon JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Guide to the Literature of Botany
Author: Benjamin Daydon JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Guide to the Literature of Botany
Author: JacksonSyllabus of the Course of Lectures on Botany
Author: David HOSACKGuide to the Literature of Botany. Being a Classified Selection of Botanical Works, Including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus'
Author: Benjamin Daydon JacksonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385436184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Syllabus of the course of lectures on botany, delivered in Columbia College
Author: David HosackSyllabus of the Course of Lectures on Botany
Author: David HosackPublications
Author: Index Society, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Author: Victoria JohnsonPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631494201
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to settle his bitter dispute with Aaron Burr. Hamilton took just two men with him: his “second” for the duel, and Dr. David Hosack. As historian Victoria Johnson reveals in her groundbreaking biography, Hosack was one of the few points the duelists did agree on. Summoned that morning because of his role as the beloved Hamilton family doctor, he was also a close friend of Burr. A brilliant surgeon and a world-class botanist, Hosack—who until now has been lost in the fog of history—was a pioneering thinker who shaped a young nation. Born in New York City, he was educated in Europe and returned to America inspired by his newfound knowledge. He assembled a plant collection so spectacular and diverse that it amazes botanists today, conducted some of the first pharmaceutical research in the United States, and introduced new surgeries to America. His tireless work championing public health and science earned him national fame and praise from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Marquis de Lafayette. One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic’s first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when, by 1810, his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland. “Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age” (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). Today what remains of America’s first botanical garden lies in the heart of midtown, buried beneath Rockefeller Center. Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, Johnson offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature.
Syllabus of botanical lectures and demonstrations, to be given before the University of Dublin, commencing on the first Monday in May
Author: William AllmanNature Displaced, Nature Displayed
Author: Nuala C. JohnsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857735470
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how the design and display of such gardens was not determined by scientific principles alone. Through a study of three botanical gardens - belonging to the University of Cambridge, the Royal Dublin Society, and the Belfast Natural History Society - the author shows how the final outcome involved a complex interplay of ideas about place, identity, empire, botanical science, and especially aesthetics, creating spaces that would educate the mind as well as please the senses. This highly engaging book offers a wealth of fresh insights into both the history and development of botanical gardens as well as connections between science and aesthetics.