Gray's Lessons in Botany: The Elements of Botany by Asa Gray Ivison, Blakeman and company 1887 Revised
Title: The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools
Author: Asa Gray
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ivison, Blakeman and company 1887
Edition: Revised
Size: 5.5 X 8.5 * 224 pages
Synopsis: AI Overview: The Elements of Botany (1887) by Asa Gray is an educational textbook for beginners, intended for use in schools, that provides a foundational understanding of the structure, growth, and function of plants, particularly flowering plants. It emphasizes practical observation and aims to teach the underlying principles and common plans of plant life rather than just memorizing technical terms. The book covers structural botany and basic vegetable physiology to help students understand how plants are built, how they live, and how they are adapted to their environments.
ā€¢Target Audience: Primarily for students and beginners, adapting the author's earlier work Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology.
ā€¢Methodology: Encourages learning through observation and understanding of universal botanical plans and structures, using the common flax plant as a model example.
ā€¢Content: Focuses on structural botany and the simpler aspects of plant physiology.
Emphasizes the study of flowering (Phanerogamous) plants as a starting point.
Explains the structure, growth, and function of plants, including how they live, move, and reproduce.
Serves as a companion to botanical manuals and floras, providing foundational knowledge for identifying plants.
ā€¢Educational Philosophy: Argues that the goal of studying botany is to acquire knowledge and ideas, not to simply memorize technical names. Technical terms should be understood in context, as part of the larger concepts they explain
Overall Condition: :Incomplete Reading Copy: The book has obvious wear. It has some wear to the cover, but its integrity is intact. There is no writing in the margins or underlining and highlighting of text, and there are two missing pages at the end of the glossary/index which would not compromise the legibility or understanding of the main text. See images.
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