A System of Vegetables, According to Their Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, Vol. 1 of 2: With Their Characters and Differences (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Linnaeus, Carl

 
9781332980420: A System of Vegetables, According to Their Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, Vol. 1 of 2: With Their Characters and Differences (Classic Reprint)

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Medicine, and in many inferior arts, as dying, tanning, varnifhing; with many of the more important Manufac'tures, as of paper, linen, cordage mull principally arife from the knowledge of B0 tan Y. For how can we afcertain the more recon dite properties of bodies, without firft being able to dif'tinguifh them from each other? From the want of this fcience almofi: all the medicines, and many of thearts of the ancients have been loft to their def cendants.

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Medicine, and in many inferior arts, as dying, tanning, varnifhing; with many of the more important Manufac'tures, as of paper, linen, cordage mull principally arife from the knowledge of B0 tan Y. For how can we afcertain the more recon dite properties of bodies, without firft being able to dif'tinguifh them from each other? From the want of this fcience almofi: all the medicines, and many of thearts of the ancients have been loft to their def cendants.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.

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So the word Legumen means a pod, in which all the peas or feeds are attached to the upper edge or future; Sz'lz'gua a pod in which they are alternately attached to the upper and under one. If the former lhould be termed flsell, and the latter pod, they mutt {lill be defined; and thus the meaning of them would be as difficult to acquire by the englifh reader as that of the words legumen, and filiqua; and would_be {o unin telligible to the latin Botanilt, t/aat too} could not con: Den/e together.

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