The Power Of Movement In Plants
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Price clipped on jacket. Usual aging but structural and clean copy.
Long before the age of molecular biology, one of history's most brilliant scientific minds turned his gaze from the animal kingdom to the quiet, persistent world of flora — and what he discovered forever changed our understanding of life itself. The Power of Movement in Plants, first published in 1880 and co-authored with his son Francis Darwin, presents Charles Darwin's meticulous, groundbreaking investigation into the capacity of plants to move, respond, and adapt to their environment, documenting phenomena such as circumnutation, the universal revolving movement he argued underlies nearly all plant motion, from climbing tendrils to germinating seedlings. This seminal work stands as a testament to Darwin's extraordinary observational rigour and his gift for drawing grand, unifying conclusions from patient, systematic experiment. Written with the same elegant scientific prose that defined On the Origin of Species, the text bridges natural philosophy and empirical botany in a manner that feels as vital today as it did in the Victorian era. This Da Capo Press edition, prefaced by Barbara Gillespie Pickard of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, restores the work to a new generation of readers — leaving one to wonder just how much of the plant kingdom's secret life remains yet to be uncovered.
Author: Charles Darwin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Da Capo Press
Genre: Botany
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Price clipped on jacket. Usual aging but structural and clean copy.
Long before the age of molecular biology, one of history's most brilliant scientific minds turned his gaze from the animal kingdom to the quiet, persistent world of flora — and what he discovered forever changed our understanding of life itself. The Power of Movement in Plants, first published in 1880 and co-authored with his son Francis Darwin, presents Charles Darwin's meticulous, groundbreaking investigation into the capacity of plants to move, respond, and adapt to their environment, documenting phenomena such as circumnutation, the universal revolving movement he argued underlies nearly all plant motion, from climbing tendrils to germinating seedlings. This seminal work stands as a testament to Darwin's extraordinary observational rigour and his gift for drawing grand, unifying conclusions from patient, systematic experiment. Written with the same elegant scientific prose that defined On the Origin of Species, the text bridges natural philosophy and empirical botany in a manner that feels as vital today as it did in the Victorian era. This Da Capo Press edition, prefaced by Barbara Gillespie Pickard of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, restores the work to a new generation of readers — leaving one to wonder just how much of the plant kingdom's secret life remains yet to be uncovered.