Collectors: Creating Hans Sloane's Extraordinary Herbarium - Hardcover

 
9780565094881: Collectors: Creating Hans Sloane's Extraordinary Herbarium
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0565094882 ISBN 13: 9780565094881
Verlag: The Natural History Museum, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This lavishly illustrated book reveals the lives of the people who assembled the greatest botanical collection of the Early Modern period, with stories of adventure and discovery across every continent. Sir Hans Sloane&;s herbarium, housed at the Natural History Museum in London, is probably the most extensive herbarium collection of its kind. It exemplifies the rich history of exploration and discovery in the period preceding Cook&;s voyages, and it remains of considerable scientific and historical value today. Assembled between the 1680s and 1750s, it comprises an estimated 120,000 pressed plant specimens. More than 300 people contributed to its development across more than 70 countries.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Huxley is former Head of Collections in the Botany Department of the Natural History Museum, London. He is a past President of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.

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Verlag
The Natural History Museum
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0565094882
ISBN 13 
9780565094881
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
208
Herausgeber
Carine Mark
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