You might also like

More about Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 154 loyalty points

Book synopsis

This two-volume milestone work, published in 1776, was the first major publication of William Withering (1741–99), a physician who had also trained as an apothecary (his Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses is also reissued in this series). The first systematic botanical guide to British native plants, the present work uses and extends the Linnaean system of classification, but renders the genera and species 'familiar to those who are unacquainted with the Learned Languages'. Withering offers 'an easy introduction to the study of botany', explaining the markers by which the plants are classified in a particular genus, and giving advice on preserving specimens, but the bulk of the work consists of botanical descriptions (in English) of the appearance, qualities, varieties, common English names, and uses of hundreds of plants. The book continued to be revised and reissued for almost a century after Withering's death.

Book details

Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Botany & plant sciences

• Full title: Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain
• Subtitle: With Descriptions of the Genera and Species, According to the System of the Celebrated Linnaeus
• Author: William Withering
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 474
• EAN: 9781108075886
• ISBN: 1108075886
• ID: 09146111
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 600 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 140 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 2015

Trending among others

---

---

---