Elements of the Philosophy of Plants: Containing the Principles of Scientific Botany; Nomenclature, Theory of Classification, Phythography; Anatomy, C

by Augustin Pyrame de Candolle and Kurt Sprengel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108037461
• ISBN13: 9781108037464
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"