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History at Australian National University, and Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College,
Oxford, for providing access to his translation prior to publication.
- Bloodletting, the treatment of choice for various ailments in the ancient world, was based
on the same principle of maintaining the proper balance of the humors. - Leviticus 15:19– 23.
- Malpighi, Anatome Plantarum, p. 55. All quoted passages from Malpighi’s Anatome
Plantarum were translated from the Latin by Professor Gildas Hamil, Department of History,
University of California, Santa Cruz. - Curiously, Malpighi also refers to “fungi” as participating in this process. Peering through
his microscope, Malpighi apparently mistook the magnified glandular hairs on the styles of
many flowers for tiny mushrooms and included them among the floral structures that purified
the sap. - Malpighi, Anatome Plantarum, p. 56.
- Descartes, R. (1649/ 1989), The Passions of the Soul: Les Passions De l’Âme, trans. Stephen
Voss. Hackett Publishing Company. - Hunter, Establishing the New Science, pp. 261– 278.
- Grew, Nehemiah (1682), The Anatomy of Plants, Book I, p. 35 (first presented in 1671).
- Many monocotyledons, including tulips, have undifferentiated “tepals” in place of sepals
and petals. Later, Grew acknowledged that tulips lack sepals, but argued that the “fat and firm”
petals of tulips make them “sufficient to themselves.” - Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, Book II, p. 163. “On the Function of the Empalement,” first
presented in 1676. - LeFanu, W. (1990), Nehemiah Grew: A Study and Bibliography of His Writings. St. Paul’s
Bibliographies, Winchester/ Ominigraphics. - Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, Book I, ch. V, p. 39.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid. - Idem., p. 40.
- Örstan, A. (2010), John Ray’s hermaphrodite snails on their 350th anniversary. Mollusc
Wo rl d 23:4. - Ray, J. (1660), Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam Nascentium. The quote is from
the 1975 English translation, Ray’s Flora of Cambridgeshire by A. H. Ewen and C. T. Prime
(Wheldon & Wesley). Ray’s original is available from Google Books: http:// tinyurl.com/ yk2j55t. - Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, Book IV, ch. V, p. 171.
- See Pulteney, R. (1790), Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in
England from Its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System. Vol. 1, ch. 25 (History of the
Discovery of the Sexes in Plants), T. Cadell in the Strand, pp. 333– 334. More recently, we were
unable to find any mention of the sexual theory of plants in Millington’s letters housed at the
British Library in London. - Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, Book IV, ch. V, p. 172.
29. Ibid. - Grew’s obscure insight anticipated by some 200 years the discovery of the phenomenon
of alternation of generations in plant life cycles by Wilhelm Hofmeister. The stamen is part of