Botany: The Science of Plant Life
An Accessible Guide to Plant Structure, Growth, Reproduction, Classification, and EcologyBy Norman Taylor
Length9h 50m
About this audiobook
Norman Taylor's *Botany: The Science of Plant Life* presents botany as both a rigorous natural science and an accessible account of the living world. Moving from the structure and functions of plants to their reproduction, classification, physiology, and ecological relationships, the book links minute biological processes with the larger patterns of vegetation familiar in fields, forests, and gardens. Its explanatory style combines orderly exposition with descriptive observation, translating technical principles into language suited to the educated general reader. In this respect, it belongs to the tradition of early modern scientific popularization, when botanical study was increasingly connected with evolution, ecology, agriculture, and everyday experience rather than confined to taxonomy alone. Taylor writes as a botanist committed to public scientific education. His approach reflects the period's effort to make biology intellectually serious yet practically intelligible, encouraging readers to regard plants not as passive decoration but as complex organisms shaped by adaptation, environment, and vital processes. The book's broad scope suggests an author interested in uniting laboratory knowledge, field observation, and the cultural value of natural history. This volume will reward students seeking a clear foundation in plant science, general readers wishing to deepen their understanding of the vegetal world, and historians of science interested in the presentation of botany to a wider audience. Its enduring value lies in showing how careful observation can transform familiar plants into subjects of scientific wonder.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length9 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Green-Keeping (Annotated)
2THE LEAF
3THE FLOWER
4THE FRUIT
5THE SEED
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6THE FERNS
7OTHER FLOWERLESS PLANTS
8Summary Of What Plants Are
9LEAVES AS FACTORIES FOR THE MAKING OF FOOD
10EFFECT OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS ON INDIVIDUAL PLANTS AND VEGETATION AS A WHOLE
112. How Plants Get Their Food and Water From the Earth
123. Borrowing From the Living and Robbing From the Dead
134. What Plants Do With Water and How They Breathe
145. Restless and Irritable Plants
15INSECTS AS FLOWER VISITORS
16WIND AND WHAT IT DOES FOR FLOWERS
17WATER AS AN AID TO FERTILIZATION
18THE LIFE HISTORY OF A FERN
19LIFE HISTORY OF A MOSS
20LIFE HISTORY OF A MUSHROOM
21THE PRODUCTION OF YOUNG PLANTS WITHOUT MATING
22PLANT FAMILIES AND ORDERS
23Some Monocotyledonous Plant Families
24Dicotyledonous Plant Families
25WHEAT
26INDIAN CORN OR MAIZE
27RICE
28SUGAR
29THE BANANA
30POTATO
31COCONUT
32TEA
33COFFEE
34CHOCOLATE
35COTTON
36HEMP AND CORDAGE
37JUTE
384. The Story of Rubber
39QUININE
40ACONITE
41OPIUM AND MORPHINE
42COCAINE
436. The Story of Tobacco
44VANILLA
45NUTMEG
46CLOVES
47CINNAMON
48TREES
49EVERGREENS
50DECIDUOUS TREES
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