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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 Disposition Of Their Constituent Parts; With The True Course Of Their Juices; - The Formation Of th EMBRYO, the CONSTRUCTION of the SEED, and the ENCREASE from that State to PERFECTION, t INCLUDING A New ANATOMY or PLANTS The Wuoxre from Nature only. John Hill introduces a foundational study of botany, tracing knowledge from classical Greece through medieval and Arab scholarship to early modern Europe. The work blends philosophical inquiry with empirical observation, detailing plant anatomy—roots, barks, ribs, fibers, pith, and vascular tissues—and the life processes by which plants grow, propagate, and form seeds. It surveys the history of botanical science, from Theophrastus to Dioscorides and Pliny, and advances a systematic consideration of plant structure and physiology, including embryology, seed formation, and vegetative life. Rich with experimental descriptions, it lays groundwork for later systematic botany and plant anatomy, offering a window into 18th-century natural philosophy and gardening practice.
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