James Sowerby: The Enlightenment's Natual Historian

Description

* First full biography of James Sowerby using some new, as well as extensive scholarly resources * Provides authoritative and enlightening accounts of how some of the most important botanical works were produced and used. * Covers the importance of botany at a time of much scientific development and the role of art in the development of taxonomy * Beautifully illustrated with Sowerby's artwork, along with extracts from letters, manuscripts and publications involving natural historians

Paul Henderson is a geologist whose early career was in the Universities of Glasgow and London, then in the Natural History Museum as Head of Mineralogy and Director of Science until 2003. He received the Honour of CBE in 2003 and is author of books on the earth sciences. He is Honorary Professor at University College London where he currently researches the history of science.

"A first-class biography."--Award of Excellence in Biography "Archives of Natural History" 2016 winner--Inspirational Book of the Year "Garden Media Guild" ""It's wonderful that Henderson has written a biography of this interesting man, telling not only about his life and work but also about the scholarly world in which he operated and the networks of various types of natural history enthusiasts of which he was a part." --Award of Excellence in Biography "The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries"