Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England from Its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnæan System, Volume 2T. Cadell, 1790 - 352 pagine "Dedicated to Jospeh Banks, this work covers the entire history of botany, starting with the practices of the Druids and Saxons, through the Middle Ages, into the Renaissance, to contemporary times. Chapters focus on the progress of the science through the work and publication of eminent botanists, including Dodoens, Gerard, Parkinson, Ray, Crowley, the involvement of the Royal Society, Martyn, and through Linnaeus and his influence on English botanical sciences."--Antiquarian bookseller's description. |
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Pagina 350 - ... his perfect acquaintance with the whole scheme enabled him to explain its minutest parts, and elucidate all those obscurities with which, on a superficial view, it was thought to be enveloped. I add to this that the urbanity of his manners, and his readiness to afford every assistance in his power, joined to that clearness and energy with which he effected it, not only brought conviction of its excellence in those who were inclined to receive it, but conciliated the minds, and dispelled the prejudices,...
Pagina 242 - Botaniir, to any man that can recite by memory, the plants of his garden. Mr. MILLER rofe much above this attainment. He added to the knowledge of the theory and practice of gardening, that of the ftructure and characters of plants, and was early and practically verfed in the methods of RAY and TOURNEFORT.
Pagina 84 - ... benevolence, and from that character, was frequently solicited by distressed persons of all classes, and, as is usual in such cases, by many who abused his bounty. To foreigners he was extremely courteous, and ready to shew and explain his curiosities to all who gave him timely notice of their visit. He kept an open table once a week for his learned friends, particularly those of the Royal Society. In the aggregation of his vast collection of books, he is said to have sent his duplicates, either...
Pagina 221 - On his return to England in 1719, he was encouraged by the assistance of several of the nobility, of sir Hans Sloane, Dr. Sherard, and other naturalists, whose names he has recorded, to return to America, with the professed design of describing, delineating, and painting the most curious objects of nature. Carolina was fixed on, as the place of his residence...
Pagina 303 - ... different latitudes may become naturalized in England. In the 45th volume of the Philosophical Transactions, we find " an account of the cinnamon-tree ;" occasioned by a large specimen, equal in size to a walking cane, sent over by Mr. Robins to Dr. Leatherland, and which was exhibited to the inspection of the royal society. From this account we learn that three cinnamon trees, which were intended to have been sent to Jamaica, were growing in the garden of Hampton Court in the reign of king William....
Pagina 311 - ... however contributed so much to extend Mr. Watson's fame as his discoveries in electricity. He took up this subject about 1744, and made several important discoveries in it. At this time it was no small advancement in the progress of electricity, to be able to fire spirit of wine. He was the first in England who effected this, and he performed it, both by the direct and the repulsive power of electricity. He afterwards fired inflammable matter, gunpowder, and inflammable oils, by the same means....
Pagina 101 - ... colony of Georgia in 1732; and formed himself the plan for bringing up the children in the Foundling hospital in 1739. In 1721 he gave the freehold of the ground at Chelsea, near four acres, on which the botanical garden stood, to the company of apothecaries, on condition that the demonstrator should, in the name of the company, deliver annually to the Royal Society, fifty new plants, till the number should amount to 2000, all specifically different from each other ; the list of which was published...
Pagina 254 - ... her a present, and gave her a public testimonial of their approbation ; with leave to prefix it to her book. The second volume was finished in 1739, and the whole published under the title, " A curious Herbal, containing 500 cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physic, engraved on folio copperplates, after drawings taken from the life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added, a short description of the plants, and their common uses in physic,
Pagina 302 - ... buckthorn will grow. They found one about twenty feet high, and near a foot in diameter. In 1751 were laid before the public some very curious and interesting particulars relating to the sexes of plants, which tended to confirm the truth of that doctrine in a remarkable manner. These were occasioned by a letter from Mr. Mylins, of Berlin, informing Mr. Watson that a tree of the palma major foliis...
Pagina 254 - The drawings are in general faithful, and if there is wanting that accuracy which modern improvements have rendered necessary, in delineating the more minute parts, yet, upon the whole, the figures are sufficiently distinctive of the subject. Each plate is accompanied with an engraved page, containing the Latin and English officinal names, followed by a short description of the plant, and a summary of its qualities...