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Botany is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
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Georges Cuvier's "Notice historique sur Charles Louis L'Héritier" is a biographical eulogy delivered as part of Cuvier's official…
Georges Cuvier's "Éloge historique de Jacques Martin Cels" belongs to a distinctive genre of French academic writing that…
It is a French translation by Buffon of Stephen Hales's Vegetable Staticks, published in Paris in 1735.
Buffon's paper takes this eccentricity as a natural-historical problem and seeks to determine its cause.
De vegetabilibus libri VII is a treatise on botany by Albertus Magnus, organized into seven books.
The work represents one of the most comprehensive surviving accounts of ancient botanical knowledge, systematically cataloguing and describing…
On the Causes of Plants is one of two surviving botanical treatises by Theophrastus, written in the late…
Enquiry into Plants is a comprehensive botanical treatise by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, a student and successor…
The book is a comprehensive practical manual of pharmaceutical and household formulas, compiled from the accumulated expertise of…
The work is dedicated to Professor Asa Gray and opens with an Introduction, a table of contents, and…
