Plants from Abroad: Botanical Terminology in 18th-century British Encyclopaedias

During the 18th century British encyclopaedias included in their lemmata an increasing number of botanical lexis, that is the terminology pertaining to “that branch of natural history which treats of the uses, characters, classes, orders, genera, and species of plants. […] and what useful and orname...

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Main Author: Elisabetta Lonati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2013-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/3305