Techniques are at the heart of understanding in botany (and any science, whether it be an –ology or not *). For, as techniques advance so should our understanding – often to the point of over-turning the ‘truth’ that...
Tag - Robert Hooke
Nigel Chaffey
Classical texts re-imagined/re-imaged…
Do you remember the good old days when students read for a degree? Well, I don’t know how much proper reading they do these days – i.e. that which involves actually touching and turning the pages of a book or research...
Leeuwenhoek whine a stinker…
I’ve long had great respect and admiration for those pioneers of microscopy. Men – for such was the case in those ‘good old days’ – such as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke and Nehemiah Grew whose inquiry and...
