Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England: Volume 1

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Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England: Volume 1 Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 386 Illustrations and other contents: Worked examples or Exercises Language: English ISBN: 9781108037327 Categories: , , , , ,

Richard Pulteney (1730-1801) was a Leicestershire physician whose medical career suffered both from a lack of aristocratic patronage and from his dissenting religious background. However, his lifelong interest in botany and natural history, and particularly his work on the new Linnaean system of botanical classification, led to publications in the Gentleman’s Magazine and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1762. His book on Linnaeus (also reissued in this series), first published in 1782, was later considered to be of great significance for the acceptance in England of the Linnaean system, and this two-volume work, published in 1790, is still relevant to the study of the history of botany. Volume 1 begins in ‘primaeval’ and ‘druidical’ times and continues to the seventeenth century, including the first printed herbals and the work of the great botanist John Ray.

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