Agnes Arber

The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1950, this monograph on the morphology of flowering plants explores the relationship between philosophy and botany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781108045056
• ISBN-10: 1108045057
• Artikelnr.: 35060387

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The meaning and content of plant morphology
2. The plant morphology of the Aristotelian school
3. The plant morphology of Albertus Magnus and Andrea Cesalpino
4. Plant morphology from Joachim Jung to Goethe and de Candolle
5. The concept of the organisation type
6. The partial-shoot theory of the leaf
7. The urge to whole-shoot-hood in the leaf
8. The bearing of the partial-shoot theory of the leaf on other morphological problems
9. Repetitive branching and the gestalt type, with special reference to parallelism
10. The mechanism of plant morphology
11. The interpretation of plant morphology
List of books and memoirs cited
Index.