Author: Stephen HalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Vegetable Staticks: or, an account of some statical experiments on the Sap in Vegetables ... Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the Air
Author: Stephen HalesVegetable Staticks : Or, an Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables : Being an Essay Towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a Specimen of an Attempt to Analyse the Air, by a Great Variety of Chymio-statical Experiments ; which Were Read at Several Meetings Before the Royal Society ....
Author: Stephen HalesStatical Essays: Containing Vegetable Staticks; Or, an Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. Being an Essay Towards a Natural History of Vegetation: ... Also a Specimen of an Attempt to Analyse the Air, ... Vol. 1 -2!. By Stheph. Hales, D. D. F. R. S. ..
Author: Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks ... The second edition, with amendments
Author: Stephen HALESThe Aliveness of Plants
Author: Peter AyresPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Darwin family was instrumental in the history of botany. Their experiences illustrate the growing specialization and professionalization of science in the nineteenth century. The author shows how botany escaped the burdens of medicine, feminization and the sterility of classification and nomenclature to become a rigorous laboratory science.
Kant and the Transformation of Natural History
Author: Andrew CooperPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192869787
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the most explosive and understudied revolutions in the history of science: the addition of time to the frame in which explanations are required, sought, and justified in natural science. Through addressing a wide range of Kant's works, Cooper challenges the claim that Kant's theory of science denies a developmental conception of nature and argues instead that it establishes a method by which natural historians can genuinely dispute historical claims and potentially come to consensus. This method, Cooper argues, can be used to expose serious flaws in Kant's own historical reasoning, including the formation and defence of his racist views. The book will be valuable to philosophers seeking to discern both the power and limitations of Kant's theory of science, and to historians of science working on the fractured landscape of eighteenth-century Newtonianism.
Plants
Author: Michael AllabyPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143812967X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Explores the research conducted by philosophers, botanists, and scientists over centuries that resulted in the emergent fields of botany, plant sociology, ecology, and biodiversity.
Photosynthesis
Author: Julian J. Eaton-RyePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940071579X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
“Photosynthesis: Plastid Biology, Energy Conversion and Carbon Assimilation” was conceived as a comprehensive treatment touching on most of the processes important for photosynthesis. Most of the chapters provide a broad coverage that, it is hoped, will be accessible to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers looking to broaden their knowledge of photosynthesis. For biologists, biochemists, and biophysicists, this volume will provide quick background understanding for the breadth of issues in photosynthesis that are important in research and instructional settings. This volume will be of interest to advanced undergraduates in plant biology, and plant biochemistry and to graduate students and instructors wanting a single reference volume on the latest understanding of the critical components of photosynthesis.
Plants in 16th and 17th Century
Author: Fabrizio BaldassarriPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110739933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded their therapeutic arsenal, and challenged their long-held medical theories. The development of herbaria, the creation of botanical gardens, and the inspection of plants contributed to a new understanding of the vegetal world. Increased attention to plants led to account for their therapeutic virtues, to test and produce new drugs, to recognize the physical properties of plants, and to develop a new plant science and medicine.
Chemical Research on Plant Growth
Author: Théodore de SaussurePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461441366
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Recherches Chimiques sur la Végétation was a seminal work in the development of the understanding of photosythesis and plant chemistry. The original publication, which was the first concise summation of the basics of plant nutrition, was a landmark in plant science. It was twice translated into German during the nineteenth century, but no English translation has been published. This translation will interest those in the plant, chemical, agricultural, and soil sciences, and the history of science, who find English more accessible than French or German and who wish to learn more about the early research on photosynthesis and plant science. A further note about the translation: This project is more than just a translation because it includes an extensive introduction as well as notes that provide explanations for archaic terminology and other background material. In the twentieth century, eminent photosynthesis researcher Eugene Rabinowitch described Recherches Chimiques sur la Végétation as the first modern book on plant nutrition. Historian of chemistry Henry Leicester called the book a classic, noting that the first important generalization about biochemistry in the nineteenth century came from it. Plant physiologist P. E. Pilet stated that the book laid the foundations of a new science, phytochemistry. Soil scientist E. Walter Russell attributed to de Saussure the quantitative experimental method, which more than anything else made modern agricultural chemistry possible. Chemist Leonard K. Nash stated that de Saussure brought the studies of plant nutrition begun by Priestley, Ingen-Housz, and Senebier close to completion, finishing the basic experimental work and providing a convincing theoretical interpretation of the field, and also opened up new vistas of experiment and thought. In the two centuries since Recherches Chimiques sur la Végétation was published, luminaries in various branches of science, including plant biology, chemistry, and soil science, have consistently praised it highly. In the nineteenth century, noted botanist Alphonse de Candolle and equally noted plant physiologist Julius von Sachs expressed great admiration for it. Although de Saussure’s ideas were forgotten for a time, famed chemist Justus von Liebig, who invented artificial fertilizer, rediscovered them in the 1840s and brought them to the attention of the agricultural community, stressing their importance for increasing crop yields.