Facets

1972 CE

#13714

Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.

Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.

1992 CE

#9568

The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.

1981 CE

#11966

The garden of eden: The botanic garden and the re-creation of paradise.

In the 15th century people still hoped that the original garden of Eden might be rediscovered, but in the 16th and 17th centuries efforts turned to collecting plants and attempting to re-create the wonder of the garde…

1731 CE

#13393

The gardeners dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden. As also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory and vineyard, according to the practice of the most experienc'd gardeners of the present age. Interspers'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin and English, and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening.

Miller was chief gardener and curator (or 'Hortulanus') at the Apothecaries' (later Physic) Garden in Chelsea. Besides covering methods of cultivation, Miller's Dictionary provided a systematic botanical compendium of…

1915 CE

#11962

The history and functions of botanic gardens.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#11964

The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy.

Unusually well illustrated in color, with detailed bibliography, surveying the history from its origins in prehistory, the Neolithic revolution, to the present. Digital facsimile rbg.vic.gov.au at this link.

1808 CE

#10067

The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,

The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1981 CE

#11959

The shaping of Cambridge botany: A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Published on the sequicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831-1981.