The naming of names : the search for order in the world of plants / Anna Pavord
2005, 1st edition. New York : Bloomsbury. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420919
ISBN: 0747579520
Physical description; 471 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-448) and index. Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award, 2006. Contents; In the beginning -- All men by nature desire to know -- The Alexandrian library -- Pliny the plagiarist -- The medicine men -- Juliana's book -- The Arab influence -- Out of the black hole -- The image makers -- Theophrastus reborn -- Brunfels's book -- The irascible Fuchs -- In Italy -- The first botanic garden -- The long-nosed nit-picker -- Weaving the web -- Protestants prevail -- Gesner's masterpiece -- New pastures -- Plantin's team -- The last of the herbals -- English achievements -- The American connection -- The beginning of the end. Subjects; Theophrastus. Turner, William -1568. Clusius, Carolus 1526-1609. Brunfels, Otto 1488-1534. Dioscorides Pedanius of Anazarbos. Fuchs, Leonhart 1501-1566. Gerard, John 1545-1612. Parkinson, John 1567-1650. Ray, John 1627-1705. Plants ; Nomenclature. Botany History. Plants Nomenclature History.
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