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The Origin of Cultivated Plants (Paperback)
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The Origin of Cultivated Plants (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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Alphonse de Candolle (1806-93) was a French-Swiss botanist who was
an important figure in the study of the origins of plants and the
reasons for their geographic distribution. He also created the
first Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Despite initially studying
law, he took over both the chair of botany at the University of
Geneva, and the directorship of Geneva's botanical gardens from his
father Augustin de Candolle (1778-1841). He published numerous
botanical books, and edited ten volumes of the Prodromus, a
seventeen-volume reference text intended to cover the key
properties of all known seed plants. This work, reissued in the
second edition of the English translation of 1886, is his most
famous and influential book, tracing the geographic origins of
plants known to have been cultivated by humans. It is one of the
earliest studies of the history of crop domestication, and an
important contribution to phytogeography.
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