This treatise on scientific botany brings together the works of two leading European scientists from the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778 1841) and the German botanist and physicist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766 1833). First published in German in 1820, it was almost immediately translated (anonymously) into English and published in Edinburgh by Blackwood in 1821. This collaborative volume includes three chapters from de Candolle's Theorie elementaire de la botanique published in Paris in 1819, while the remaining texts and the...
This treatise on scientific botany brings together the works of two leading European scientists from the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Swis...