The Botanizers

The Botanizers Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America

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Hardback (30 Sep 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Drawing on popular magazines, textbooks, letters, diaries, fiction and autobiographies, charts the rise of botany as the most popular science in America for recreational and pedagogical purposes during the 1820s. Illuminates the surprising cooperation between amateurs and trained professionals until the end of the century. Annotation copyright Book

Book information

ISBN: 9780807820469
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
Edition: New edition 1
DEWEY: 581.097309034
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 206
Weight: 494g
Height: 243mm
Width: 149mm
Spine width: 22mm