James Sowerby : The Enlightenment's Natual Historian

Name: James Sowerby
Brand: Royal Botanic Gardens
SKU: 9781842465967
Price: 10800 KES
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ISBN: 9781842465967

by Paul Henderson

Book Details

Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1842465961

ISBN-13 9781842465967

Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens

Imprint Kew Publishing

Country of Manufacture IT

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 1st, 2015

Print length 336 Pages

Weight 1,410 grams

Dimensions 20.00 x 25.60 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)Nature in the arts Biography: science, technology & medicine Biography: science, technology and medicine Natural history Nature and the natural world: general interest

KSh 10,800.00

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James Sowerby (1757-1822) was an outstanding artist and natural historian, renowned for his discoveries and prodigious output of beautiful, scientific books of plants, fungi, animals, fossils and minerals, all during the age of Enlightenment in Great Britain.

• First full biography of James Sowerby using some new, as well as extensive scholarly resources• Provides authoritative and enlightening accounts of how some of the most important botanical works were produced and used.• Covers the importance of botany at a time of much scientific development and the role of art in the development of taxonomy • Beautifully illustrated with Sowerby’s artwork, along with extracts from letters, manuscripts and publications involving natural historians

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