Early British Botanists: And Their Gardens (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Early British Botanists: And Their Gardens<br><br>The Goodyer papers serve to illustrate missing chapters in the histories of Botany and Horticulture in that most interesting period of British Science the hundred years which preceded the foundation of the Royal Society. Authors of standard histories of British Botany largely based on German authority have been apt to skim rapidly over this period in which several of our countrymen were in some respects well abreast of Linnaeus. And these manuscripts with all the annotated books which Goodyer bequeathed to Magdalen College in 1664 are probably the completest and most useful collection for a study of English Botany that was not merely pre-linnean but was pre-morisonian and pre-raian as well.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.