The Naming of Names
The Search for Order in the World of Plants
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2010
480 pages
978-1-4088-2076-6 (ISBN)
Description
For centuries, some of the most brilliant minds in Europe searched for the rules of nature's game. In a world full of plagues and poisons, many medicines were made from plant extracts and there was a practical need to differentiate between one plant and another. Alongside this was an overwhelming desire to make sense of the natural world. Scholars, aided by the artists who painted the first pictures of plants, set out looking, writing and classifying, but 2,000 years were to pass before any rules became clear. Anna Pavord takes us on an exhilarating and fascinating journey through botanical history, travelling from Athens in the third century BC, through Constantinople and Venice, Padua and Pisa to the present day.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-2076-6 (9781408820766)
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Person
Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for the Independent and the author of eight previous books, including the bestselling The Tulip. She contributes to a number of magazines, both in the US and the UK, and regularly fronts programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. She chairs the Gardens Panel of the National Trust and sits on the Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage.
She lives in Dorset, England, where she spent thirty years restoring the garden of an old rectory. She has recently moved to a new house and started another garden. She is married and has three daughters.
Content
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- I IN THE BEGINNING
- II ALL MEN BY NATURE DESIRE TO KNOW
- III THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY
- IV PLINY THE PLAGIARIST
- V THE MEDICINE MEN
- VI JULIANA'S BOOK
- VII THE ARAB INFLUENCE
- VIII OUT OF THE BLACK HOLE
- IX THE IMAGE MAKERS
- X THEOPHRASTUS REBORN
- XI BRUNFELS'S BOOK
- XII THE IRASCIBLE FUCHS
- XIII IN ITALY
- XIV THE FIRST BOTANIC GARDEN
- XV THE LONG-NOSED NIT-PICKER
- XVI WEAVING THE WEB
- XVII PROTESTANTS PREVAIL
- XVIII GESNERS MASTERPIECE
- XIX NEW PASTURES
- XX PLANTING TEAM
- XXI THE LAST OF THE HERBALS
- XXII ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENTS
- XXIII THE AMERICAN CONNECTION
- XXIV THE BEGINNING OF THE END
- EPILOGUE
- CHRONOLOGY
- CAST LIST
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
- BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- IMPRINT
