History of Botany

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Author

Sachs, Julius, 1832-1897

Title

History of Botany (1530-1860)

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Produced by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Botany -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61240

Release Date

January 25, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes — HISTORY OF BOTANY (1530-1860)
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE To the English translation of the History of Botany of Julius von Sachs.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — ERRATA. — FIRST BOOK HISTORY OF MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION (1530-1860)
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to Kaspar Bauhin [2] .
7. 7.CHAPTER II. Artificial Systems and Terminology of Organs from Cesalpino to Linnaeus. 1583-1760.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. Development of the Natural System under the Influence of the Dogma of the Constancy of Species. 1759-1850.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. Morphology under the Influence of the Doctrine of Metamorphosis and of the Spiral Theory. 1790-1850.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. Morphology and Systematic Botany under the Influence of the History of Development and the Knowledge of the Cryptogams. 1840-1860. — Thallophytes.
11. 11.SECOND BOOK HISTORY OF VEGETABLE ANATOMY (1671-1860)
12. 12.INTRODUCTION.
13. 13.CHAPTER I. Phytotomy founded by Malpighi and Grew. 1671-1682.
14. 14.CHAPTER II. Phytotomy in the Eighteenth Century.
15. 15.CHAPTER III. Examination of the Matured Framework of Cell-membrane in Plants. 1800-1840.
16. 16.CHAPTER IV. History of Development of the Cell, Formation of Tissues, Molecular Structure of Organised Forms. 1840-1860. — 1. Development of the Theory of Cell-formation from 1838 to 1851. — 2. Further Development of Opinion on the Nature of the Solid Framework of Cell-Membrane in Plants after 1845. — 3. History of Development and Classification of Tissues. — 4. Nägeli’s theory of Molecular Structure and of growth by intussusception.
17. 17.THIRD BOOK HISTORY OF VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY (1583-1860)
18. 18.INTRODUCTION.
19. 19.CHAPTER I. History of the Sexual Theory. — 1. From Aristotle to R. J. Camerarius. — 2. Establishment of the Doctrine of Sexuality in Plants by Rudolph Jacob Camerarius. 1691-1694. — 3. Dissemination of the New Doctrine; its Adherents and Opponents. 1700-1760. — 4. The theory of Evolution and Epigenesis. — 5. Further development of the sexual theory by Joseph Gottlieb Koelreuter, and Konrad Sprengel. 1761-1793. — 6. New opponents of Sexuality and their refutation by experiments. 1785-1849. — 7. Microscopic investigation into the processes of fertilisation in the phanerogams; pollen-tube and egg-cells [113] . 1830-1850. — 8. Discovery of Sexuality in the Cryptogams. 1837-1860.
20. 20.CHAPTER II. History of the Theory of the Nutrition of Plants. 1583-1860. — 1. Cesalpino. — 2. First inductive experiments and opening of new points of view in the History of the Theory of the Nutrition of Plants. — 3. Fruitless attempts to explain the movement of the sap in plants. 1730-1780. — 4. The modern theory of nutrition founded by Ingen-Houss and Theodore de Saussure. 1779-1804. — 5. Vital force. Respiration and heat of plants. Endosmose. 1804-1840. — 6. Settlement of the question of the food-material of plants. 1840-1860.
21. 21.CHAPTER III. History of the Doctrine of the Movements of Plants (Phytodynamics).
22. 22.INDEX.
23. 23.FOOTNOTES:

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