The Anatomy of Plants : with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several Other Lectures, Read Before The Royal Society

The Anatomy of Plants : with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several Other Lectures, Read Before The Royal Society

QK41 .G82

1682

Like many other botanists of his era, Nehemiah Grew was trained as a physician. Grew and Marcello Malpighi from Italy, another physician, were the first to conduct serious studies of plant anatomy with the microscope. The Anatomy of Plants is a compilation and revision of Grew's previous works and was an important botanical reference for more than a century.

300 pages

Rare Book Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

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