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The history of botany examines the human effort to understand life on Earth by tracing the historical development of the discipline of botany—that part of na...
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May 2, 2023 · History of Botany/why Botany play important role in our daily life.
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Sep 20, 2019 · Today, Jane Colden is commonly acknowledged as the first female botanist in what would become the United States, noted for her forward-thinking adoption of the relatively new Linnaean...
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- During The Pre-17Th Century
- During The 17th Century
- During The 18th Century
- During The 19th Century
- Twentieth Century Up to The Present
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4th Century B.C.E: Both Aristotle and Theophrastus got involved in identifying plants and describing them. Because of his contributions, Theophrastus was hailed as the “Father of botany” because of his two surviving works on plant studies. Although Aristotle also wrote about plants, he received more recognition for his studies of animals. In A.D. 6...
Early 17th century:For a brief period, the search for knowledge in the field of Botany temporarily became stagnant. However, the revival of learning during the European Renaissance renewed interest in plants. The number of scientific publications increased. 1640: Johannes van Helmont measured the uptake of water in a tree. Brittanica.com explains (...
1727: Stephen Hales successfully established plant physiology as a science. He published his experiments dealing with the nutrition and respiration of plants in his publication entitled Vegetable Staticks. He developed techniques to measure area, mass, volume, temperature, pressure, and even gravity in plants. 1758: Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne...
Early part of the nineteenth century:Progress in the study of plant fossils was made. 1818:Chlorophyll was discovered. 1840: Advances were made in the study of plant diseases because of the potato blight that killed potato crops in Ireland. This led to the further study of plant diseases (Richman 2016). 1847: The process of photosynthesis was first...
Early 20th Century: The process of nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and ammonification was discovered. 1903: The two types of chlorophyll—a and b were discovered. Learn more here. 1936: Through his experiment, Alexander Oparin demonstrated the mechanism of the synthesis of organic matter from inorganic molecules. Refer to a controversial observati...
Arber, Agnes. “THE EARLY HISTORY OF BOTANY.” Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution, 2010: 1-2.Farabee, M. Development of the Evolutionary Theory. 2001. https://www2.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookEVOLI.html(accessed July 22, 2016).JRank Articles. e: Botany – History of botany – Plants, Plant, Study, and Century. 2016. http://science.jrank.org/pages/996/Botany.html(accessed July 24, 2016).kenyon.edu. History of Genetics. 2016. http://biology.kenyon.edu/courses/biol114/Chap01/history_genetics.html(accessed July 22, 2016).Chartered by Congress in 1818, the Institute started the first botanical garden on the Nation’s Mall and established the beginnings of a National Herbarium with specimens from local naturalists William Darlington and Alexander McWilliams.
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Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” (1859) revolutionized biology. His work on the evolution of plants showcased natural selection, fundamentally changing the scientific approach to botany. In the early 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s experiments with pea plants laid the groundwork for the field of genetics.
