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100	1		_aGrew, Nehemiah, _d1641-1712
245	1	4	_aThe anatomy of plants
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-12-09
508			_aCarol Brown, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_aThe anatomy of plants by Nehemiah Grew is a scientific treatise written in the late 17th century. It lays out a systematic, microscope-aided account of plant structure and life processes, contending that plants possess organized internal “organs” and mechanical operations comparable to those of animals. The work’s aim is a “philosophical history” of plants that connects anatomy, sap flow, and the sensory qualities of colors, odors, and tastes to their faculties and practical uses in medicine, cultivation, and the arts. The opening of this treatise presents a transcriber’s note on editorial choices and a helpful contents overview, followed by the Royal Society’s endorsement and a dedication to the monarch asserting the novelty and wonder of plant microstructure. Grew’s preface recounts how lecture work grew into a larger project, how peers in the Royal Society encouraged and licensed it, how it stood alongside Malpighi’s parallel studies, and how he combined naked-eye inspection with microscopy and explanatory plates. He then introduces his “Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants,” first surveying what botanists already know and where knowledge is deficient, and arguing why deeper inquiry is both possible and worthwhile. He proposes a multi-part program: comparative study of external features (figures, proportions, seasons, places, motions), rigorous anatomy of all parts with and without the microscope, and analysis of plant “contents” (sap, mucilages, milks, oils, gums) including their receptacles, motions, quantities, consistence, colors, smells, tastes, and faculties. Finally, he sketches an experimental toolkit—infusion, digestion, decoction, distillation, drying, roasting, burning, calcination, and mixtures—to relate these observations to causes and uses. This is only a summary of the opening portion, which sets the plan and methods rather than presenting the full body of results. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Nehemiah Grew, 1682
653			_aChemistry -- Early works to 1800
653			_aPlant anatomy
653			_aBotany -- Pre-Linnean works
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77434
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