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The brother gardeners
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Andrea Wulf |
This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It's the story of a… |
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The philosopher's plant
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Michael Marder |
"Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in… |
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No ordinary gardener
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Blanche Henrey |
324 p. : 26 cm |
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André and François André Michaux
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Savage, Henry |
This biography covers André and François André Michaux, two of the most significant figures in the botanical history of the United States and France. During their lives, spanning the latter half of t… |
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Science and Colonial Expansion
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Lucile H. Brockway |
"This book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerf… |
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