Posts Tagged ‘scientific revolution’
“Nullius in Verba”: The Royal Society and the Cultivation of Knowledge
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 28, 1660 On this day, a seed was planted that would grow into one of the most influential scientific bodies in history. A group of forward-thinking individuals gathered for what would become…
Read MoreThe Language of Nature: Galileo Galilei, Father of Modern Science and Mathematics
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. February 15, 1564 Dearest reader, On this day, we mark the birth of one of the most enthralling minds in the annals of history—Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and philosopher.…
Read MoreHewett Cottrell Watson: The Father of British Plant Geography and Darwin’s Forerunner
by Hewett Cottrell Watson 21 Nov 1859 My dear Sir Once [I started] to read the ‘Origin’ I could not rest [until] I had galloped through [all of it]. I shall now begin to re-read it more deliberately. Meantime I am tempted to write you [my] first impressions… 1st. Your leading idea will assuredly become…
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