Fathers of Botany
Title | Fathers of Botany PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Kilpatrick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Botanists |
ISBN | 9780226206707 |
Focussing on the lives of four great French missionary botanists as well as a group of other French priests, Franciscan missionaries, and a single German Protestant pastor who all amassed significant plant collections, the author unearths a lost chapter of botanical history.
Fathers of Botany
Title | Fathers of Botany PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Kilpatrick |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2014-10-13 |
Genre | Botanists |
ISBN | 9781842465141 |
The first to come upon the bounty of Chinese flowers were Catholic missionary priests who were also remarkable botanists. They spent hours collecting in their districts, and sending dry specimens back to European botanists. Many of the plants they discovered carry their names, but few know of the David behind Davidia involucrata, or the Hugonis of Rosa hugonis. The chapters in this work focus primarily on the lives of four great French missionary botanists--Pere Armand David, Pere Jean Marie Delavay, Pere Guilaume Farges, and Pere Jean Andre Soulie--and also a group of other French priests and Franciscan missionaries who collected, in addition to one German pastor, the only Protestant missionary to make significant plant collections. Pere David is among the best known, having discovered the Giant Panda, but the others have disappeared into the thick of history. This book will help ensure that today's gardeners and botanists appreciate the debt owed to this obscure group, drawing on their journals, drawings, and other historical documents.
Exploring Creation with Botany
Title | Exploring Creation with Botany PDF eBook |
Author | Jeannie K. Fulbright |
Publisher | Apologia Educational Ministries |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Botany |
ISBN | 9781932012491 |
This book begins with a lesson on the nature of botany and the process of classifying plants. It then discusses the development of plants from seeds, the reproduction processes in plants, the way plants make their food, and how plants get their water and nutrients and distribute them throughout the body of the plant. As students study these topics, they also learn about many different kinds of plants in creation and where they belong in the plant classification system. The activities and projects use easy-to-find household items and truly make the lessons come alive! They include making a "light hut" in which to grow plants, dissection of a bean seed, growing seeds in plastic bags to watch the germination process, making a leaf skeleton, observing how plants grow towards light, measuring transpiration, forcing bulbs to grow out of season, and forcing pine cones to open and close. We recommend that you spend the entire school year covering this book.
The Father of Botany
Title | The Father of Botany PDF eBook |
Author | A. Harvey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1971 |
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Father Fernie, the Botanist: a tale and a study; including his life, wayside lessons, and poems
Title | Father Fernie, the Botanist: a tale and a study; including his life, wayside lessons, and poems PDF eBook |
Author | James NICHOLSON (Author of “Kilwuddie, ” etc.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1868 |
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ISBN |
The herball
Title | The herball PDF eBook |
Author | John Gerard |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1636 |
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Father Fernie, the Botanist: a Tale and a Study; Including His Life, Wayside, Lessons, and Poems
Title | Father Fernie, the Botanist: a Tale and a Study; Including His Life, Wayside, Lessons, and Poems PDF eBook |
Author | James Nicholson (Writer of Verse.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1868 |
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