Makers of British Botany is a collaborative volume in which living botanists wrote biographical essays about the pioneering figures who established botany as a science in Britain. The collection covers individuals ranging from the early herbalists of the Tudor and Stuart periods through the great systematic botanists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, tracing the development of botanical knowledge in Britain from natural history curiosity to professional science.
As a collection of expert-authored biographies, the volume provides both an intellectual history of British botany and a gallery of the remarkable individuals who built it. Download the free EPUB for this unique collective portrait of British scientific achievement.