Roots to Seeds
400 Years of Oxford Botany
Seiten
2021
Bodleian Library (Verlag)
978-1-85124-561-1 (ISBN)
Bodleian Library (Verlag)
978-1-85124-561-1 (ISBN)
Oxford has an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. Celebrating 400 years of Oxford botany, this book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries.
Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University.
This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer’s renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca – an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean – and rare plant specimens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild’s Mule (the first artificially created hybrid plant).
Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid botanists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants.
Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University.
This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer’s renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca – an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean – and rare plant specimens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild’s Mule (the first artificially created hybrid plant).
Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid botanists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants.
Stephen Harris is Druce Curator at the Oxford University Herbaria and a University Research Lecturer.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
1Root: The Origins of Botany
2Stem: Botanical Collections
3Leaf: Collectors and Collecting Methods
4Bud: Naming and Classifying
5Flower: Experimental Botany
6Fruit: Applied Botany
7Seed: Teaching Botany
Notes
Further Reading
Timeline
Picture Credits
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 80 Illustrations, color |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 237 x 259 mm |
| Gewicht | 1414 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85124-561-8 / 1851245618 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85124-561-1 / 9781851245611 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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