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Descriptive Botany: A Practical Guide To The Classification Of Plants, With A Popular Flora (1885) - Tapa blanda

Eliza Ann Youmans

 
9781436820608: Descriptive Botany: A Practical Guide To The Classification Of Plants, With A Popular Flora (1885)
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ISBN 10: 143682060X ISBN 13: 9781436820608
Editorial: Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Sinopsis

Descriptive Botany: A Practical Guide To The Classification Of Plants, With A Popular Flora is a comprehensive guide to the classification of plants, written by Eliza Ann Youmans and originally published in 1885. The book is designed to be a practical resource for anyone interested in botany, whether they are a professional botanist or a casual enthusiast. The first part of the book provides an overview of the principles of classification, including a discussion of the different systems of classification that have been used throughout history. It also covers the basic anatomy and physiology of plants, including their reproductive structures, and explains how these features are used to classify different types of plants.The second part of the book is a popular flora, which provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of different plant species. Each entry includes information on the plant’s appearance, habitat, distribution, and uses, as well as its classification within the larger system of plant taxonomy.Throughout the book, Youmans emphasizes the importance of observation and careful study in understanding the diversity of plant life. She also provides practical tips for identifying plants in the field, including guidance on using keys and other identification tools.Overall, Descriptive Botany: A Practical Guide To The Classification Of Plants, With A Popular Flora is a valuable resource for anyone interested in botany, whether they are a professional scientist or simply a curious amateur. Its clear and accessible writing style, combined with its comprehensive coverage of the subject matter, make it an essential reference for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of the natural world.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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By the common practice of the schools, pupils often go through the botanical text-books with only the most incidental attention to the real objects of study. As there is no training in observation, there can be no attempt at the exercise of the reason and judgment of the learner upon the results of observation. To attain this important end, botany must be studied in its actual objects. The characters of plants must become familiarly known by the detailed and repeated examination and accurate description of large numbers of plants. The pupil must proceed step by step in this preliminary work digesting his observations, and making the facts his own. From the beginning he will be engaged in comparing his observations, and reasoning upon his facts. As he extends his knowledge, the work of comparison and grouping calls for a higher exercise of thought. In the final classification of plants, problems of increasing complexity arise. Plants are to be placed in groups subordinate to each other, when judged by masses of resemblances, by likenesses, and differences of unequal values, which involve the exercise of the best powers of the mind. That the habit of systematic arrangement, in which the study of botanical classification affords so admirable a training, is equally valuable in methodizing all the results of thought, is testified to as a result of his own experience by that eminent authority, Mr. John Stuart Mill. He was a regular field botanist, and cultivated the subject with a view to its important mental advantages. In the second volume of hisS ystem of Logic Mr. Mill says :A lthough the scientific arrangements of organic nature afford as yet the only complete example of the true principles of rational classification, whether as to the formation of groups or of series, these principles are applicable to all cases in which mankind are called upon to bring the
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Editorial
Kessinger Publishing
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
143682060X
ISBN 13 
9781436820608
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
388
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