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Hortus Curious

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780744078374

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Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world. Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own, or by growing off others; some live by air and water; others are carnivorous, eating the creatures around them; some plants look remarkably like animals; while others have unusual symbolism; and some have special cultural significance. This book explores them all, bringing together the most peculiar and most fascinating plants on the planet – celebrating them in all their diverse splendor. Split into five chapters, covering everything from poisonous plants to painkilling ones, Michael Perry explains exactly what makes each plant special. With exquisitely detailed illustrations of all the different species, this is an informative, humorous, and beautiful gift for all those who love plants – whether they want to grow them or not. Hortus Curious delivers a different way to view the plant world and enjoy it for its bonkers and bizarre. The book is split into five chapters, covering: - Plants Behaving Badly – the criminal world of plants such as poisonous plants, insect catching plants, and plants that do risky thing - Mistaken Identity – plants that look like other things, e.g. flowers that look like monkeys, bees, or even dead man’s fingers - Greater Good – did you know that aspirin comes from a plant? This chapter explores the plants that make up our everyday products - Superheroes – find out about the plants that can disguise themselves, changing color, shape or even moving themselves - X-rated Plants – a selection of the rudest plants out there! A humorous and quirky gift book for people interested in plants and gardening, Hortus Curious is sure to delight.

The Garden of Delights

Author : Fiona J. Griffiths
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812202113

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In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly persuasive new reading of female monastic culture. Through careful analysis of the contents, structure, and organization of the Hortus, Griffiths argues for women's profound engagement with the spiritual and intellectual vitality of the period on a level previously thought unimaginable, overturning the assumption that women were largely excluded from the "renaissance" and "reform" of this period. As a work of scholarship that drew from a wide range of sources, both monastic and scholastic, the Hortus provides a witness to the richness of women's reading practices within the cloister, demonstrating that it was possible, even late into the twelfth century, for communities of religious women to pursue an educational program that rivaled that available to men. At the same time, the manuscript's reformist agenda reveals how women engaged the pressing spiritual questions of the day, even going so far as to criticize priests and other churchmen who fell short of their reformist ideals. Through her wide-ranging examination of the texts and images of the Hortus, their sources, composition, and function, Griffiths offers an integrated understanding of the whole manuscript, one which highlights women's Latin learning and orthodox spirituality. The Garden of Delights contributes to some of the most urgent questions concerning medieval religious women, the interplay of gender, spirituality, and intellectual engagement, to discussions concerning women scribes and writers, women readers, female authorship and authority, and the visual culture of female communities. It will be of interest to art historians, scholars of women's and gender studies, historians of medieval religion, education, and theology, and literary scholars studying questions of female authorship and models of women's reading.

Flora

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780744046311

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Let the experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens guide you around the beautiful and mysterious world that is the plant kingdom. From regulating the air we breathe to providing food, clothes, fuels, and medicines - plants are fundamental to our lives. Discover an extraordinary diversity of species, which includes a grass that grows a meter a day, roots that breathe air, and "queen of the night" cactuses whose rare blooms vanish before dawn. In a combination of art and science, Flora celebrates plants from majestic trees to microscopic algae, explaining how they germinate, grow, and reproduce. It presents species that have evolved to accommodate pollinating insects such as the foxglove, and plants that have adapted to flourish in even the most hostile of habitats. Pierre-Joseph Redoute in the 18th-century was described as the "Raphael of flowers". Flora showcases his botanical paintings as well as those of Georg Ehret and others in this gorgeous visual celebration of plants through the ages. Whether you are a keen gardener, naturalist, or botany student, this beautiful book is a treat that will entice, inform, and amaze.

A catalogue of books

Author : Thomas and John Egerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555061167

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The Curious Mister Catesby

Author : E. Charles Nelson,David J. Elliott
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780820347264

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The Curious Mister Catesby by E. Charles Nelson,David J. Elliott Pdf

In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored his return to North America. There Catesby cataloged the flora and fauna of the Carolinas and the Bahamas by gathering seeds and specimens, compiling notes, and making watercolor sketches. Going home to England after five years, he began the twenty-year task of writing, etching, and publishing his monumental The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby was a man of exceptional courage and determination combined with insatiable curiosity and multiple talents. Nevertheless no portrait of him is known. The international contributors to this volume review Catesby’s biography alongside the historical and scientific significance of his work. Ultimately, this lavishly illustrated volume advances knowledge of Catesby’s explorations, collections, artwork, and publications in order to reassess his importance within the pantheon of early naturalists.

The Curious History of Mazes

Author : Julie E. Bounford
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780760363027

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Thread your way through this history of mazes from the ancient world to today and solve over one hundred mazes along the way. From prehistoric times, mazes and labyrinths worldwide have served as different symbolic, ritualistic, and practical purposes. Taken as a powerful metaphor for life’s journey, they can be used as tools for meditation and learning at any level, even when completed for recreation. Maze images can be enjoyed as motifs themselves, but also in their material forms—a meditation, puzzle, dance, walk, ritual, pilgrimage, or simply a day out. Drawing upon a wealth of historical and classical literature; accounts written by explorers, archaeologists, and historians; and the output of modern and contemporary world-renowned experts and enthusiasts, social historian Dr. Julie Bounford explores the evolution of mazes through time and across continents, presenting their history in a fun and engaging format while challenging readers to solve over one hundred mazes—many created exclusively for this book by illustrator and artist Trevor Bounford. Learn about: The earliest recorded examples, legends, and mazes in the ancient world Mazes used as sacred rituals and symbols that take us beyond the natural world Turf, stone, hedge, and garden mazes, and sites of communal rustic revels The modern revival, with mazes taken to forms never previously imagined Explore how mazes can improve your mental dexterity and create mindfulness, and use the gazetteer to locate historical, replica, and interesting mazes that exist around the world today.

A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century

Author : Samuel Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : NYPL:33433082426804

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The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections

Author : Holden Arboretum,Cleveland Medical Library Association,Garden Center of Greater Cleveland
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0873384334

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The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections by Holden Arboretum,Cleveland Medical Library Association,Garden Center of Greater Cleveland Pdf

More than 970 rare books, dating from 1479 to 1830 and covering such categories as gardening, herbals, botanical books and landscape architecture are catalogued in this bibliography.

Bibliotheca Americana

Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081687851

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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America

Author : Joseph Sabin,Wilberforce Eames,Robert William Glenroie Vail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : America
ISBN : NLS:V000012577

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