Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution
Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution

Author: Agnes Arber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-31

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1108016715

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This volume traces the history and development of printed herbals between 1470 and 1670.

Flora Unveiled
Flora Unveiled

Author: Lincoln Taiz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0190490268

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This book focuses on how the the scientific discovery of "plant sex" unfolded due to cultural biases, beliefs, and perceptions about plant reproduction. "Flora Unveiled" is a deep history of perceptions about plant gender and sexuality, from the Paleolithic to the nineteenth century. The evidence suggests that a plants-as-female gender bias both prevented the discovery of two sexes in plants until the late 17th century, and delayed its acceptance for another 150 years.

Fame and Fortune
Fame and Fortune

Author: Clare Brant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1137580542

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This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714–1775), a prolific contributor to Georgian England’s literature, medicine and science. By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and become a household name among scientists and writers throughout Britain and Europe. In 1750s London he was a celebrity, but he was also widely vilified. Hill, an important writer of urban space, also helped define London through his periodicals and fictions. As well as examining his significance and achievements, this book makes Hill a means of exploring the lively intellectual and public world of London in the 1750s where rivalries abounded, and where clubs, societies, coffee-houses, theatres and pleasure gardens shaped fame and fortunes. By investigating one individual’s intersections with his metropolis, Fame and Fortune restores Hill to view and contributes new understandings of the forms and functions of eighteenth-century intellectual worlds.

Herbals
Herbals

Author: Agnes Arber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-12-11

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780521338790

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The reissue of the 1938 revised edition of a work originally published in 1912 indicates its lasting value as a classic survey on the development of botany as a distinct scientific discipline.