438 Pages
by
Routledge
This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several other Lectures, read before the Royal Society. By Nehemiah Grew M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the College of Physicians (1628), Timothy Nourse, Campania Foelix: Or, a Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry: Containing Directions for all Manner of Tillage, Pasturage, and Plantation (1700), Thomas Stretser (?), Arbor Vitae: Or, the Natural History of the Tree of Life (1741), Thomas Stretser (?), The Natural History of the Frutex Vulvaria, or Flowering Shrub: As it is Collected From the Best Botanists Both Ancient and Modern. By Philogynes Clitorides (1732), Stephen Switzer, ‘Introduction to Rural and Extensive Gardening’, introduction to volume III of Ichnographia Rustica: or, the Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener’s Recreation. Containing Directions for the Surveying and Distributing of a Country-seat … The Second Edition, with large Additions (1742), James Perry, Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant; a Poem. Dedicated to Mr. Banks, and addressed to Kitt Frederick, Duchess of Queensbury, Elect. (1779), Erasmus Darwin, ‘Key of the Sexual System’, The Families of Plants, with their Natural Characters according to the Number, Figure, Situation, and Proportion of all the Parts of Fructification (1787), Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes (1789, 1791), Elizabeth Moody, ‘To Dr Darwin, on Reading his Loves of the Plants’, Poetic Trifles (1798), Priscilla Wakefield, An Introduction to Botany in a Series of Familiar Letters, etc. (1796), Charlotte Smith, Conversations Introducing Poetry, Chiefly on Subjects of Natural History For the Use of Children and Young Persons (1804), Bibliography, Notes, Index
Biography
Judith Hawley
