The Early Naturalists; Their Lives And Work (1530-1789)
The book The Early Naturalists; Their Lives And Work (1530-1789) was written by author Miall, L. C. (Louis Compton), 1842-1921 Here you can read free online of The Early Naturalists; Their Lives And Work (1530-1789) book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Early Naturalists; Their Lives And Work (1530-1789) a good or bad book?
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He investigated nutrition through the roots by setting plants in pots, and cover- ing the earth with sulphur, sea-salt, slaked lime, wine, &c. Beans were laid in water, which was covered with oil, to see whether they would germinate. A worker with a talent for experiment might try such things as these, but he would not have accepted failure so easily as Malpighi did, nor would he have printed a string of experiments which had taught him nothing. MALPIGHI 153 The Stem of the Flowering-plant. The... figures of the Anatome Plantarum show that Malpighi had by his own labours attained to a fair general notion of the herbaceous dicotyledonous stem, of the woody dicotyledonous stem, and of the stem of maize. Among other things they illustrate the scattered bundles of monocotyledonous stems, the annual rings of dicotyle- donous wood, the medullary rays, the rearrangement of fibres at a node, dotted ducts (with a spiral fibre instead of the characteristic marking), and wood-fibres. Cells, which he calls utricles, sacculi and globules, were familiar to him, both when filled with cell-sap and dry.
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