Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Samuel Hahnemann, Jean Jaurs, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Jan Evangelista Purkyn, Sveinbjrn Egilsson, Jan Van Der Hoeven. Excerpt: Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (April 17, 1794December 13, 1868 Munich ) was a German botanist and explorer .Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university. He afterwards devoted himself to botanical study, and in 1817 he and Johann Baptist von Spix were sent to Brazil by the king of Bavaria . They travelled from Rio de Janeiro through several of the southern and eastern provinces of Brazil, and ascended the Amazon River to Tabatinga, as well as some of its larger affluents.On his return to Europe in 1820 he was appointed conservator of the botanic garden at Munich, including the herbarium at the Botanische Staatssammlung Mnchen, and in 1826 professor of botany in the university there, and held both offices till 1864. He devoted his chief attention to the flora of Brazil, and in addition to numerous short papers he published the Nova Genera et Species Plantarum Brasiliensium (1823-1832, 3 vols.) and Icones selectae Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Brasiliensium (1827), both works being finely illustrated. An account of his travels in Brazil appeared in 3 vols. 4to, 1823-1831, with an atlas of plates, but probably the work by which he is best known is his Historia naturalis palmarum (1823-1850) in 3 large folio volumes, in which all known genera of the palm family are described and illustrated. The work contains more than 240 chromolithographs, with habitat sketches and botanical dissections. In 1840 he began the Flora Brasiliensis, with the assistance of the most distinguished European botanists, who und...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 19th-Century Latin Writers: Samuel Hahnemann, Jean Jaurs, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Jan Evangelista Purkyn. To get started finding 19th-Century Latin Writers: Samuel Hahnemann, Jean Jaurs, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Jan Evangelista Purkyn, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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42
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Release
2010
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115672094X
19th-Century Latin Writers: Samuel Hahnemann, Jean Jaurs, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Jan Evangelista Purkyn
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Samuel Hahnemann, Jean Jaurs, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Jan Evangelista Purkyn, Sveinbjrn Egilsson, Jan Van Der Hoeven. Excerpt: Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (April 17, 1794December 13, 1868 Munich ) was a German botanist and explorer .Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university. He afterwards devoted himself to botanical study, and in 1817 he and Johann Baptist von Spix were sent to Brazil by the king of Bavaria . They travelled from Rio de Janeiro through several of the southern and eastern provinces of Brazil, and ascended the Amazon River to Tabatinga, as well as some of its larger affluents.On his return to Europe in 1820 he was appointed conservator of the botanic garden at Munich, including the herbarium at the Botanische Staatssammlung Mnchen, and in 1826 professor of botany in the university there, and held both offices till 1864. He devoted his chief attention to the flora of Brazil, and in addition to numerous short papers he published the Nova Genera et Species Plantarum Brasiliensium (1823-1832, 3 vols.) and Icones selectae Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Brasiliensium (1827), both works being finely illustrated. An account of his travels in Brazil appeared in 3 vols. 4to, 1823-1831, with an atlas of plates, but probably the work by which he is best known is his Historia naturalis palmarum (1823-1850) in 3 large folio volumes, in which all known genera of the palm family are described and illustrated. The work contains more than 240 chromolithographs, with habitat sketches and botanical dissections. In 1840 he began the Flora Brasiliensis, with the assistance of the most distinguished European botanists, who und...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 19th-Century Latin Writers: Samuel Hahnemann, Jean Jaurs, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Jan Evangelista Purkyn. To get started finding 19th-Century Latin Writers: Samuel Hahnemann, Jean Jaurs, Peter Simon Pallas, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius, Jan Evangelista Purkyn, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.