Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science
Subtitle: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801861758
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; History of science; Social history; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology; Botany (General); Women In Science; Science; Science/Mathematics; England; Gender Studies; History; Life Sciences - Botany; New England; Science / History; Women's Studies - General
First sentence: In the opening years of the nineteenth century the entrepreneurial artist and printer James Sowerby issued a card game meant to teach how to name and classify plants.