Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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A Few Plain Instructions for Collection and Transporting Plants in Foreign Countries
Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
A Few Plain Instructions for Collecting and Transporting Plants in Foreign Countries
Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3
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A Manual of Scientific Enquiry
Author: John Frederick William HerschelPublisher:
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Category : Scientific expeditions
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Manual of Scientific Enquiry
Author: John F. W. HerschelPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368131761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
A Manual of Scientific Enquiry
Author: John Frederick William HerschelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108029175
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
This 1849 publication was intended to encourage and assist naval officers in collecting scientific information on their travels.
Imperial Nature
Author: Jim EndersbyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677399X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first—and most successful—British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim Endersby argues, the perfect embodiment of Victorian science. A vivid picture of the complex interrelationships of scientific work and scientific ideas, Imperial Nature gracefully uses one individual’s career to illustrate the changing world of science in the Victorian era. By analyzing Hooker’s career, Endersby offers vivid insights into the everyday activities of nineteenth-century naturalists, considering matters as diverse as botanical illustration and microscopy, classification, and specimen transportation and storage, to reveal what they actually did, how they earned a living, and what drove their scientific theories. What emerges is a rare glimpse of Victorian scientific practices in action. By focusing on science’s material practices and one of its foremost practitioners, Endersby ably links concerns about empire, professionalism, and philosophical practices to the forging of a nineteenth-century scientific identity.
The Wardian Case
Author: Luke KeoghPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022671375X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more. Roses, jasmine, fuchsia, chrysanthemums, and rhododendrons bloom in gardens across the world, and yet many of the most common varieties have roots in Asia. How is this global flowering possible? In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle, intending to observe the moth hatch. But when a fern and meadow grass sprouted from the soil, he accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in glass containers could survive for long periods without watering. After four years of experimentation in his London home, Ward created traveling glazed cases that would be able to transport plants around the world. Following a test run from London to Sydney, Ward was proven correct: the Wardian case was born, and the botanical makeup of the world’s flora was forever changed. In our technologically advanced and globalized contemporary world, it is easy to forget that not long ago it was extremely difficult to transfer plants from place to place, as they often died from mishandling, cold weather, and ocean salt spray. In this first book on the Wardian case, Luke Keogh leads us across centuries and seas to show that Ward’s invention spurred a revolution in the movement of plants—and that many of the repercussions of that revolution are still with us, from new industries to invasive plant species. From the early days of rubber, banana, tea, and cinchona cultivation—the last used in the production of the malaria drug quinine—to the collecting of beautiful and exotic flora like orchids in the first great greenhouses of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, and England’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Wardian case transformed the world’s plant communities, fueled the commercial nursery trade and late nineteenth-century imperialism, and forever altered the global environment.
A Manual of Scientific Enquiry
Author: HerschelVictorian Material Culture
Author: Boris JardinePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315400332
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This second volume, ‘Science and Medicine’, will examine objects (from the most significant to the most obscure) that played a part in nineteenth-century scientific developments.
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