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"The Peter Crossing collection"--Title page.
Author : David J. Mabberley
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Botanical artists
ISBN : 9781742236476
"The Peter Crossing collection"--Title page.
Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1847654010
In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering-places and a water lily named after a queen. Beginning with pagan cults and creation myths, the cultural significance of plants has burst upwards, sprouting into forms as diverse as the panacea (the cure-all plant ginseng, a single root of which can cost up to $10,000), Newton's apple, the African 'vegetable elephant' or boabab - and the mystical, night-flowering Amazonian cactus, the moonflower. Ranging widely across science, art and cultural history, poetry and personal experience, Mabey puts plants centre stage, and reveals a true botanical cabaret, a world of tricksters, shape-shifters and inspired problem-solvers, as well as an enthralled audience of romantics, eccentric amateur scientists and transgressive artists. The Cabaret of Plants celebrates the idea that plants are not simply 'the furniture of the planet', but vital, inventive, individual beings worthy of respect - and that to understand this may be the best way of preserving life together on Earth.
Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393248771
"Highly entertaining…Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view." —Constance Casey, New York Times The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey. A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death. Writing in a celebrated style that the Economist calls “delightful and casually learned,” Mabey takes readers from the Himalayas to Madagascar to the Amazon to our own backyards. He ranges through the work of writers, artists, and scientists such as da Vinci, Keats, Darwin, and van Gogh and across nearly 40,000 years of human history: Ice Age images of plant life in ancient cave art and the earliest representations of the Garden of Eden; Newton’s apple and gravity, Priestley’s sprig of mint and photosynthesis, and Wordsworth’s daffodils; the history of cultivated plants such as maize, ginseng, and cotton; and the ways the sturdy oak became the symbol of British nationhood and the giant sequoia came to epitomize the spirit of America. Complemented by dozens of full-color illustrations, The Cabaret of Plants is the magnum opus of a great naturalist and an extraordinary exploration of the deeply interwined history of humans and the natural world.
Author : David Mabberley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1350259365
A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge. As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study was revolutionized – through the work of Charles Darwin and many others – and the new science of biology was born, based on cells, nuclei and molecules. As Darwinism took hold, plants came to be seen as a way of thinking about the connectivity of nature and life itself. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. David Mabberley is Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK; Emeritus Professor at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands; and Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Plants set. General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.
Author : Peng-Yeng Yin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9533070145
For more than 40 years, pattern recognition approaches are continuingly improving and have been used in an increasing number of areas with great success. This book discloses recent advances and new ideas in approaches and applications for pattern recognition. The 30 chapters selected in this book cover the major topics in pattern recognition. These chapters propose state-of-the-art approaches and cutting-edge research results. I could not thank enough to the contributions of the authors. This book would not have been possible without their support.
Author : Sandra Knapp
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 1552978109
The history of plants and flowers are examined using profiles of twenty plant families and hundreds of botanical paintings from the archives of the Natural History Museum, London.
Author : Elizabeth Phipps Train
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1891
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : Conrad Loddiges & Sons
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Flowers
ISBN :
Author : Edward Lee Greene
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Botanists
ISBN :
Author : Carolyn Fry
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2024-11-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0711294941
The Botanists’ Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the most significant publications that have informed botanical knowledge throughout history.