James Sowerby: The Enlightenment's Natual Historian

James Sowerby (1757-1822) was an outstanding artist and natural historian, renowned for his discoveries and prodigious output of beautiful, scientific books of plants, fungi, animals, fossils and minerals, all during the age of Enlightenment in Great Britain. • First full biography of James Sowerby using some new, as well as extensive scholarly resources• Provides authoritative and enlightening accounts of how some of the most important botanical works were produced and used.• Covers the importance of botany at a time of much scientific development and the role of art in the development of taxonomy • Beautifully illustrated with Sowerby’s artwork, along with extracts from letters, manuscripts and publications involving natural historians

• | Author: Paul Henderson
• | Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781842465967
• | ISBN-10: 1842465961