History of Botany (1530-1860)

CONTENTS.

FIRST BOOK.
History of Morphology and Classification.
1530-1860.
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Introduction	3
CHAPTER I.
The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to Caspar Bauhin, 1530-1623	13
CHAPTER II.
Artificial Systems and Terminology of Organs from Cesalpino to Linnaeus, 1583-1760	37
CHAPTER III.
Development of the Natural System under the Influence of the Dogma of the Constancy of Species, 1759-1850	108
CHAPTER IV.
Morphology under the Influence of the Doctrine of Metamorphosis and of the Spiral Theory, 1790-1850	155
CHAPTER V.
Morphology and Systematic Botany under the Influence of the History of Development and the knowledge of the Cryptogams, 1840-1860	182
SECOND BOOK.
History of Vegetable Anatomy.
1671-1860.
Introduction	219
CHAPTER I.
Phytotomy founded by Malpighi and Grew, 1671-1682	229
CHAPTER II.
Phytotomy in the Eighteenth Century	246
CHAPTER III.
Examination of the Matured Framework of Cell-Membrane in Plants, 1800-1840	256
CHAPTER IV.
History of Development of the Cell, Formation of Tissues, Molecular Structure of Organised Forms, 1840-1860	311
THIRD BOOK.
History of Vegetable Physiology.
1583-1860.
Introduction	359
CHAPTER I.
History of the Sexual Theory
1. From Aristotle to R. J. Camerarius	376
2. Establishment of the Doctrine of Sexuality in Plants by R. J.Camerarius, 1691-1694	385
3. Dissemination of the New Doctrine; its Adherents and Opponents, 1700-1760	390
4. The Theory of Evolution and Epigenesis	402
5. Further Development of the Sexual Theory by J. G. Koelreuter and Konrad Sprengel, 1761-1793	406
6. New opponents of Sexuality and their refutation by Experiments, 1785-1849	422
7. Microscopic Investigation into the Processes of Fertilisation in the Phanerogams, the Pollen-Tube and Eggs, 1830-1850	431
8. Discovery of Sexuality in the Cryptogams, 1837-1860	436
CHAPTER II.
History of the Theory of Nutrition of Plants, 1583-1860	445
1. Cesalpino, 1583	450
2. First Inductive Experiments and Opening of New Points of View in the History of the Theory of the Nutrition of Plants, to 1730	453
3. Fruitless Attempts to Explain the Movement of the Sap in Plants, 1730-1780	482
4. The Modern Theory of Nutrition Founded by Ingen-Houss and Theodore de Saussure, 1779-1804	491
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