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Order Nr. 28553 NEHEMIAH GREW, A STUDY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS. William R. Lefanu
(Grew, Nehemiah).

NEHEMIAH GREW, A STUDY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS.

Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1990. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 182 pages. First edition. Nehemiah Grew was a pioneer in exploring the physiology of plants and the comparative anatomy of animals. He was an active Fellow of the Royal Society and one of its busiest officers in its first great period during the 1670s. Born in Warwickshire in 1641, he was educated at Cambridge and practiced as a physician in the City of London where..... READ MORE

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Prefatory Note                                                     xi
Acknowledgments                                                  xiii
References                                                         xv
Illustrations                                                    xvii

GREW'S LIFE AND CAREER: A SUMMARY NOTE I

THE WRITNGS OF NEHEMIAH GREW
   I Disputatio de Liquore Nervoso 1671                             5
  II Anatomy of Plants 1672-1682:                                   7
     IIA The Anatomy of Vegetables begun 1672                       8
     IIB An Idea of a Phytological History-
          The Anatomy and Vegetation of Roots 1673                 14
     IIC A Discourse concerning Mixture 1675                       17
     IID The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks
          1675                                                     18
     IIE Experiments in Consort of Luctation
          1678                                                     20
     IIF The Anatomy of Plants 1682                                23
 III Musaeum Regalis Societatis 1681:                              28
     IIIA The Royal Society's Museum and its
          Exhibits                                                 32
     IIIB Musaeum 1681-Comparative
          Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts                             40
  IV Sea-water Made Fresh 1683                                     44
   V Bitter Purging Salt 1695                                      49
  VI Cosmologia Sacra 1701                                         53
 VII The Royal Society:
     VIIA Grew as Secretary and Editor 1677-79                     55
     VIIB Contributions to Philosophical Transactions:
          1 Observations touching the Nature of Snow 1673          60
          2 The Pores in the Skin of the Hands and Feet 1684       61
          3 Observationes de Morboso Liene 1691                    62
          4 The Food of the Humming Bird 1693                      62
          5 The Number of Acres in England 1711                    64
VIII Enquiries relating to New England and the Indians 1690        67
  IX Account of Henry Sampson 1705                                 68
   X Correspondence                                                70
  XI Funeral Sermon by John Shower 1712                            72



THE BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                   75
   I De Liquore Nervoso 1671                                       76
  II The Anatomy of Plants:
     IIA The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun 1672                      77
     IIB An Idea of a Phytological History 1673                    85
     IIC A Discourse concerning Mixture 1675                       88
     IID The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks 1675                    90
     IIE Experiments in Consort of Luctation 1678                  93
     IIF The Anatomy of Plants 1682                                97
     IIG Anatomy of Plants-Related Papers                         106
 III Musaeum Regalis Societatis 1681                              109
  IV Sea-water Made Fresh                                         122
     IVA Sea-water Made Fresh 1683                                124
     IVB Fitzgerald's Pamphlets                                   127
     IVC Fitzgerald's Supplementary Pamphlets                     130
     IVD Walcot's Pamphlets                                       134
   V Bitter Purging Salt 1695                                     135
  VI Cosmologia Sacra 1701                                        143
 VII Contributions to Philosophical Transactions:
     1 The Nature of Snow 1673                                    147
     2 The Pores in the Skin of Hands and Feet 1684               147
     3 De Morboso Liene 1691                                      147
     4 The Food of the Humming Bird 1693                          148
     5 The Number of Acres in England 1711                        148
VIII Enquiries relating to New England and the
       Indians 1690                                               150
  IX Account of Henry Sampson 1705                                151
   X Correspondence                                               152
  XI A Funeral Sermon upon the Death of Dr Grew 1712              154


APPENDIX I    Donors to the Repository, and Subscribers to
              Musaeum or The Anatomy of Plants                    155
APPENDIX II   Philosophical Transactions- six issues edited by
              Grew 1678-79                                        163
APPENDIX III  'Papers of Dr N. Grew' [c. 1709]                    167

GENERAL INDEX                                                     169
INDEX OF LIBRARIES                                                180