The naming of names : the search for order in the world of plants
Pavord, Anna2005
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Nomenclature is no easy sport - dreaming up names for any species, genus, group or even 'thing' has occupied and ravaged some of the world's greatest minds. Anna Pavord investigates botanical history throughout its formative stages in classical civilisation, through to the European Renaissance and beyond.
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London : Bloomsbury, 2005.
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471 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. ports. ; 26 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index.
ISBN:
9780747579526 (hbk)
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English
BRN:
1940467
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