History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth CenturyAbridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... ancients , indeed , have left us descriptions , though they are imperfect ones , of many plants ; but no systematic arrangement seems ever to have been attempted or conceived by them . Hence the obscurity and uncertainty which overhang ...
... ancients , indeed , have left us descriptions , though they are imperfect ones , of many plants ; but no systematic arrangement seems ever to have been attempted or conceived by them . Hence the obscurity and uncertainty which overhang ...
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... ancients investigated with The first step towards the revival of botany , was to study the works of Theophrastus , Dioscorides , and Pliny , and to determine , as far as possible , the plants which these writers describe . These ...
... ancients investigated with The first step towards the revival of botany , was to study the works of Theophrastus , Dioscorides , and Pliny , and to determine , as far as possible , the plants which these writers describe . These ...
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... ancients ; that , in truth , the ancients had attempted to describe , or enumerate , only a very small number of plants , while the great body had escaped their attention . * But these publications , though they tended to increase the ...
... ancients ; that , in truth , the ancients had attempted to describe , or enumerate , only a very small number of plants , while the great body had escaped their attention . * But these publications , though they tended to increase the ...
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... ancients . They talk indeed frequently of male and female trees and plants ; but it was some difference between the size of the plants , the smoothness of the leaves , or the shape of the seeds , and no knowledge of the male and female ...
... ancients . They talk indeed frequently of male and female trees and plants ; but it was some difference between the size of the plants , the smoothness of the leaves , or the shape of the seeds , and no knowledge of the male and female ...
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... ancients , that it is a native of America , that it was brought first from Mexico to Spain , and that it was introduced into England as early as 1524 . By 1583 it had become a common article of food . III . AMPHIBIA . The amphibious ...
... ancients , that it is a native of America , that it was brought first from Mexico to Spain , and that it was introduced into England as early as 1524 . By 1583 it had become a common article of food . III . AMPHIBIA . The amphibious ...
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