Author: Thomas Martyn

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Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781332922765

Excerpt from The Language of Botany: Being a Dictionary of the Terms Made Use of in That Science, Principally by Linneus; With Familiar Explanations, and an Attempt to Establish Significant English Terms; The Whole Interspersed With Critical Remarks Botanical Language, and particularly to the mode which feems belt for us to adept when we write or fpeak of the fcience in our native tongue. SO long as Botany continued to be lindied only among thofe who had received a learned educa tion the original terms of Linneus, derived from the Greek or Latin, ferved all the purpofes of ge neral intercourfe. But when it became univer fally adopted, a Vernacular Language would of courfe be gradually formed; and if it were to be left to chance, or the choice of the ignorant, many abfurdities and barbarifms would be intro duced, debafing our iterling Englifh. This it has been my wilh to avoid; and 1 now renew the attempt which I made fome tim'e fince* to fix our native Botanical Language on certain and reafonable principles, conformable to general analogy. Had not this been my particular view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.