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Botany (Greek Βοτάνη (botanē) meaning "pasture", "herbs" "grass", or "fodder"; [2] Medieval Latin botanicus – herb, plant) [3] and zoology are, historically, the core disciplines of biology whose history is closely associated with the natural sciences chemistry, physics and geology.
William Thomas Stearn CBE FLS VMH (/ s t ɜːr n /; 16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist.Born in Cambridge in 1911, he was largely self-educated and developed an early interest in books and natural history.
The following outline is an overview of and topical guide to botany, ... History of botany; History of plant systematics; Major plant groups. Algae. Cyanobacteria;
Botany, also called plant science or phytology, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. [1] A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field.
Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As a field of science, plant systematics came into being only slowly, early plant lore usually being treated as part of the study of medicine.
History of Botany (1530–1860) (differs in German: Geschichte der Botanik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1860 [ 1 ] ) is a book about the historical evolution of botany , originally published in German by prominent German botanist [ 2 ] Julius von Sachs in 1875.
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