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The Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle des Courges

Year: 2007

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: The Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle des Courges is the most detailed and complete literary document remaining that accompanies Duchesne’s drawings and describes his experiments with the gourds. Interestingly, without J. B. P. A. de M. de Lamarck’s request to Duchesne to contribute an article on the gourds to the famous Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique, of which Lamarck was editor, Duchesne may never have published a summary of his work with the gourds.“Of the three leaders of the botany of ...

DOI: 10.4000/books.mnhn.5164

Author: Harry S. Paris

Language: English

Topic: History of Science and Natural History

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4246990516

FWCI: 4.692

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