Title
Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes : et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l'histoire de la vegetation
By
Bonnet, Charles, 1720-1793
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Göttingen, E. Luzac, fils, 1754
Notes
First edition of a work which has become a classic, for Bonnet was the first to demonstrate a process of breathing in plants.
Bonnet's plates, brilliantly engraved, depict plants and experiments which prove conclusively the consummation of oxygen. He also expressed the view that plants are endowed with powers of sensation and discernment, an idea which has later been taken up again by Darwin and others.
For further information, see Rudolf Wolf, Biographien zur Kulturgeschichte der Schweiz, Zürich, 1858-62, III, pp. 277.
Title-page in red and black; title vignette; head pieces; initials.
Subjects
Leaves
,
Osmosis
BHL Collections
Charles Darwin's Library
Call Number
QK689 .B64 1754
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.6939
OCLC:
18261978
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51524590
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