Dialogues On Botany

Download or read book Dialogues on Botany written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dialogues on Botany for the Use of Young Persons written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conversations On Botany written by Elizabeth Fitton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fascinating compilation of conversations between three women on the subject of botany. They cover a wide range of topics including plant classification, anatomy, and uses, as well as botanical history and the role of plants in medicine. The book is aimed at a general audience and is suitable for anyone interested in the natural world or who wishes to increase their knowledge of botany. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

Download or read book Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830 written by Sam George and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. Previously ignored primary texts of an extraordinary nature are rescued from obscurity and assigned a proper place in the histories of science, eighteenth-century literature, and women’s writing. The result is groundbreaking: the author explores nationality and sexuality debates in relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women’s writing — the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women’s writing, or the relationship between literature and science.

Download or read book The Young Botanists; in Thirteen Dialogues. With Twelve ... Engravings written by BOTANISTS. and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children ... Designed for the Use of Schools. By a Lady [Maria E. Jackson]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: