Barbara M Thiers
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A heavily illustrated history of herbaria from one of the world's foremost experts.
Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grow around them. organizing the specimens into collections. Know as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Thiers explores how herbaria emerged and have changed over time. She explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things on both the molecular...