Sentence examples for science of botany from inspiring English sources

As knowledge of the art of making porcelain spread across Europe, the science of botany also was flourishing.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the science of botany took form, and many of the important botanists of the period were directors of the botanical gardens of their day.

Thereafter he attended working-men's botanical societies and meetings in public houses, thus meeting a broad church of people with interests not only in the science of botany but also in floriculture, herbalism and horticulture.

Having obtained his own garden in 1819, he promoted his interests by founding the Prestwich Botanical Society on 11 September 1820, presiding over meetings in a pub where plant specimens were brought together for identification and where those who could not read were taught the science of botany by those who could.

The science of botany was founded as these scholars engaged with the accounts of plants, and especially of their medicinal uses, together with a newly critical reaction to mediaeval pharmacology, which was based on unthinking acceptance of the Natural History of Pliny the Elder and the De Materia Medica of Dioscorides.

However it was not until the end of the 18th century, with the development of the sciences of botany and geology, that the idea of evolution was debated seriously.

Once decided on his course, Kohn found an obliging thesis advisor, who helped him form a joint history of science and botany committee, and looked for an original topic to work on.

Bailey was the first to raise the study of horticulture to a science, paralleling botany, which earned him the title of "Father of American Horticulture".

The paths they leave open the way for other forms of trafficking, such as prospecting for precious stones, plentiful in Madagascar," says Aro Vonjy Ramarosandratana, head of botany at the science faculty in Antananarivo and adviser to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites).

However, in the early 19th century with the recognition of botany as an official science women were again excluded from the discipline.

Many journals focused on the plant sciences, including the Botanical Society of America's journals, Applications in Plant Sciences (APPS) and the American Journal of Botany, require submission of vouchers as a condition for publication of articles.