Intro Flashcards
scientific study of plants/plant biology
Botany
father of Biology
Aristotle
father of Botany
Theophrastus
illustrated on sheets of papyrus
City of Alexandria
plants pressed roots to leaves for scientific researches
herbarium
pharmaceutical ‘Bible’/guidebook, 600 plants, 100 medicine
“de Materia Medica” (On Medical Material)
Who wrote “Historia Plantarium” - Enquiry into Plants and “On the Causes of Plants”?
Theophrastus
Who wrote “de Materia Medica” (On Medical Material)?
Pedanius Dioscorides
When was botany-related knowledge searching stagnant?
Early 17th Century
Who disproved ancient Greeks’ theory that plants gained mass by absorbing soil?
Johannes van Helmont
Who was credited for the invention of the microscope and is part of the Royal Society of London?
Robert Hooke
Who really invented the microscope?
Hans & Zacharias Janssen
Who coined the term ‘cell’?
Robert Hooke
What plant did Hooke look into that under the microscope he said it looked like ‘prison cells’?
Cork
What was Hooke’s famous publication?
“Micrographia”
world’s oldest academic society
Royal Society of London
motto of the Royal Society of London
‘Nullius in verba’ - take nobody’s word for it
founder of the Royal Society of London
Robert Boyle
father of Microbiology, inventor of the hand-held microscope
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
protozoa, yeasts, and bacteria were called _____________ before by Leeuwenhoek.
animalcules