James Sowerby : The Enlightenment's Natual Historian
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
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
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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