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Botany As a Hobby 3
This book, the third in a series which explores botany wherever it impinges on our lives, describes the relationships between botany and literature. It covers literature in a very broad sense, from scientific writing to flights of fancy touching on plants only marginally. It ranges from writing which refers to plants purely for literary purposes to writing which describes the botany of plants, but in an enjoyable way. The early part of the books is an account of how plants and the communities to which they belong are presented in literature, how plants are used for more literary purposes, how they are used for wider purposes, such as morality, religion and politics and how the uses of plants feature. Later chapters describe how botany is used by selected poets, how plants feature in novels, and how botany itself can be presented as fiction. It is hoped that the book will draw literature lovers to botany and plant lovers to literature.
Guide to the Literature of Botany. Being a Classified Selection of Botanical Works, Including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus'
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
Leah Knight argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other in historically specific ways. Knight's in-depth readings of sixteenth-century herbals are incorporated in a narrative which establishes the broader context for the interpenetration of plants and writing in the period's cultural practices to illuminate a complex interplay between materials and discourses rarely considered in tandem today.
Roots to Seeds
Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University.This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer's renowned illustrations for Flo...
