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The Golden Age of Botany

A time of great adventure and discovery couched in the Age of Reason, a time when Botany was merely a branch of medicine and practiced almost exclusively by doctors and surgeons, and a time when the world was opening up to the concept of scientific discovery.

The defining individual of the 'Golden Age of Botany' would have to be Carl Linnaeus, but there were many who worked on theories that would later influence Linnaeus in developing his system of classification.

But it was perhaps the adventure of discovery that defined the age, that wanderlust that had gripped the imagination of young men like Carl Linnaeus, Joseph Banks and Joseph Hooker.

• Carl Linnaeus
  • What's in a name?
  • Celsius
  • Classification
  • Daniel Solander
  • Erasmus Darwin
• Joseph Banks the Explorer
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Captain Cook
  • Sir Joseph Banks The Leader
  • The Experiment
  • Captain William Bligh
• Nathaniel Wallich
• William Jackson Hooker
• Joseph Hooker - The Antarctic
  • Sir James Ross
  • Megaherbs
  • Charles Darwin
• Joseph Hooker - The Himalayas
• Sir Joseph Hooker - Further Journeys
• The French Missionary-Botanists
  • Père David
  • Père Delavay
  • Père Farges
• Kew, a Botanical Garden for the Ages
  • Francis Masson
  • Walter Hood Fitch
  • Marianne North

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