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  • The Green Library: 26 Classic Books to Enrich Your Botanical Knowledge

    Classic Writings on Plant Science, Wildflowers, Forests, Ecology, and Evolution

    by S. Leonard Bastin, Huron H. Smith, Charles C. P. Hobkirk, Henry A. Gleason, Charles Emerson Sanborn, Ernest E. Scholl, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Mrs. Loudon, G. F. Scott Elliot, Charles Clemon Deam, Alphonse de Candolle, Annie Lorrain Smith, Robert H. Mohlenbrock, E. E. Nuuttila, Wilbur R. Mattoon, George D. Fuller, Robert B. Miller, C. B. Webster, Jacob Levison, A. B. Brooks, George Francis Atkinson, Lorin Low Dame, Henry M. Brooks, Edward Step, K. Rangachari, C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Frances Parsons, Charles Otis, Norman Taylor, Maxwell Masters, Julius Sachs, Isaac Bayley Balfour ...
    The Green Library gathers twenty-six classic botanical works into a capacious survey of plant life as science, craft, and cultural inheritance. Its selections range from field guides and floras to studies in taxonomy, ecology, forestry, plant physiology, fungi, and the practical identification of trees and wildflowers. Technical observation sits beside lucid popular exposition, while landmark ... Read more

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  • History of Botany (1530-1860)

    Enriched edition. Tracing Botanical Discoveries and Evolution in Historical Texts

    by Julius Sachs, Caleb Pennington ...
    Translated by Henry E. F. Garnsey ...
    In "History of Botany (1530-1860)," Julius Sachs presents an exhaustive chronicle of botanical science, tracing the evolution of plant studies from the Renaissance through the mid-19th century. Employing a meticulous blend of narrative and analysis, Sachs delves into significant developments and key figures in botany, encapsulating the shifting paradigms of scientific inquiry during this ... Read more

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  • History of Botany (1530-1860)

    by Julius von Sachs ...
    The authors of the oldest herbals of the 16th century, Brunfels, Fuchs, Bock, Mattioli and others, regarded plants mainly as the vehicles of medicinal virtues; to them plants were the ingredients in compound medicines, and were therefore by preference termed ‘simplicia,’ simple constituents of medicaments. Their chief object was to discover the plants employed by the physicians of antiquity, the ... Read more

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  • History Of Botany (1530-1860)

    by Julius Von Sachs ...
    Julius von Sachs (1832-1897) was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia. In Sachs 'History of Botany' he has made it his chief object to discover the first dawning of scientific ideas and to follow them as they developed into comprehensive theories, for in this lies the true history of a science. Sachs singles out those men as the true heroes of our story who not only established new ... Read more

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  • The Naming of the Shrew

    A Curious History of Latin Names

    by John Wright ...
    Latin names – frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel – have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century.Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus aquaticus, or the Oxford Ragwort been called Senecio squalidus – 'dirty old man'? What were naturalists thinking ... Read more

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  • Origin of Species

    by Thomas Henry Huxley ...
    MR. DARWIN'S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have not yet wholly superseded the ambition and the vanity of the carnal man within him, he must be well satisfied with the results of his venture in publishing the 'Origin of Species'. Overflowing ... Read more

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  • Man's Place in Nature and Other Essays

    by Thomas Henry Huxley ...
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  • Divine Machines

    Leibniz and the Sciences of Life

    by Justin Smith-Ruiu ...
    Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In Divine Machines, Justin Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas ... Read more

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  • The History of Creation (Vol.1&2)

    Enriched edition. Complete Edition

    by Ernst Haeckel, Courtney Middleton ...
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    In "The History of Creation (Vol. 1 & 2)," Ernst Haeckel embarks on a meticulous exploration of biological evolution, interweaving scientific inquiry with philosophical musings. Written in the late 19th century, this work exemplifies the burgeoning interest in natural sciences and the implications of Darwinian theory. Haeckel's prose is characterized by its vivid imagery and accessible language, ... Read more

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  • Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

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    This is Volume III of Hegel's philosophy of nature, which is part of a wider collection of seven volumes on Hegel. Originally published in 1970, this text looks at Organic Physics. ... Read more

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  • Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer on the Origin of Species and Principles of Biology (Illustrated)

    by Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer ...
    This book has an active table of contents to access each chapter of the following titles:The Origin of Species – Charles DarwinThe Principles of Biology: Volume 1 and 2 – Herbert SpencerThe most well-known work An Essay on the Principle of Population was published by Malthus in 1798. Malthus argued that increases in population would eventually diminish the ability of the world to feed itself and ... Read more

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