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The Vegetable System - Softcover

John Hill

 
9780461389647: The Vegetable System

Synopsis

The Vegetable System: Or, A Series Of Experiments, And Observations Tending To Explain The Internal Structure, And The Life Of Plants; Their Growth, And Propagation; The Number, Proportion, And Desposition Of Their Constituent Parts; With The True Course Of Their Juices; The Formation Of The — John Hill. John Hill, MD, presents an eighteenth?century botanical treatise that proposes both artificial and natural systems of plant classification, outlining plant anatomy, growth, and nourishment. The text explains the classification into Classes, Tribes, Genera, and Species, and provides many plates illustrating the various plant groups—safflower, egg-thistle, carline thistle, and dozens more. It merges observational science with systematic theory, arguing that confusion in groups arises from human misinterpretation rather than nature. As a historical document, it illuminates early approaches to plant morphology and taxonomy and the emergence of the natural system in botany.

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