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Agnes Arber (18791960) provides here a fascinating exploration of the morphology of flowering plants. First published in 1950, this book combines the modern, post-Darwinian approach with biology's much earlier roots in natural philosophy to produce a rich tour of botanical history that touches on every era of the field.

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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.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 2/23/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781108045056, 978-1108045056
      ISBN10: 1108045057
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      Botany and plant sciences

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Agnes Arber (18791960) provides here a fascinating exploration of the morphology of flowering plants. First published in 1950, this book combines the modern, post-Darwinian approach with biology's much earlier roots in natural philosophy to produce a rich tour of botanical history that touches on every era of the field.

      Table of Contents
      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.

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