Complex sentence: He placed these findings in the context of the pioneering English plant physiologist Stephen Hales's magnificent 1727 book "Vegetable Staticks", who observed that plants lose water by "perspiration" and then went one better by conducting experimentsto quantify the process.
Split into simpler sentences: He placed these findings in the context of the pioneering English plant physiologist Stephen Hales's magnificent 1727 book "Vegetable Staticks". Hales observed that plants lose water by "perspiration" and then went one better by conducting experimentsto quantify the process.