Botanick Essays. In Two Parts. The first containing, the structure of the flowers, and the fructification of plants, with their various distributions into method: and the second, the generation of plants, with their sexes and manner of impregnating the seed: also concerning the animalcula in semine masculino. Together with the nourishment of plants, and circulation of the sap in all seasons, analogous to that of the blood in animals. With many curious remarks, and several discoveries and improvements. Adorn'd with figures.
Botanick Essays. In Two Parts. The first containing, the structure of the flowers, and the fructification of plants, with their various distributions into method: and the second, the generation of plants, with their sexes and manner of impregnating the seed: also concerning the animalcula in semine masculino. Together with the nourishment of plants, and circulation of the sap in all seasons, analogous to that of the blood in animals. With many curious remarks, and several discoveries and improvements. Adorn'd with figures.
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- Autore
- Blair (Patrick)
- Editori
- London: Printed by William and John Innys, 1720.
- Soggetto
- BOTANY NATURAL HISTORY
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First edition, 8vo, [xxxii], 414 + 2pp., of adverts, LACKING the final two preliminary leaves, with initial imprimatur leaf, engraved folding frontispiece and an additional 4 engraved folding plates, later calf, endpapers re-newed. First edition of Blairís ìmost outstanding workî (Henrey II p.48). The Royal Society granted Blair license to publish Botanick Essays on 22 October 1719, when Sir Isaac Newton (the dedicatee of this work) held the Presidential Chair; it was likely published in 1719, though the title-page bears the date 1720. ìPulteney considered that the publication of Botanick essays, in which Blair expounded the then new view as to the sexual characters of plants, contributed greatly to the extension of the knowledge and the confirmation of the truth of this matter in England.î Henrey 456.
