On Plants
On Plants (Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν; Latin: De plantis) is a botanical treatise included in the Corpus Aristotelicum but usually regarded as Pseudo-Aristotle.[1] In 1923, a manuscript containing the original Arabic translation from Greek, as done by Ishaq ibn Hunayn, was discovered in Istanbul, which led scholars to conclude the work was likely an exegesis/commentary by philosopher Nicolaus of Damascus (d. 4 AD) on a treatise by Aristotle which is now lost. On Plants describes the nature and origins of plants.
Content
The work is divided into two parts.
Part 1
The first part discusses the nature of plant life, sex in plants, the parts of plants, the structure of plants, the classification of plants, the composition and products of plants, the methods of propagation and fertilization of plants, and the changes and variations of plants.
Part 2
The second part describes the origins of plant life, the material of plants, the effects of external conditions and climate on plants, water plants, rock plants, effects of locality on plants, parasitism, the production of fruits and leaves, the colors and shapes of plants, and fruits and their flavors.
Translations
"Alfred the Englishman translated the Arabic version into Latin in the reign of Henry III. It was retranslated from this version into Greek at the Renaissance by a Greek resident in Italy."[2]
See also
- Historia plantarum (Theophrastus)
- Andrea Cesalpino (wrote De Plantis Libri XVI in 1583)
References
External links
- Works related to On Plants at Wikisource
- Opuscula public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Henderson, Jeffrey. "ARISTOTLE, On Plants". Loeb Classical Library.
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- Agriculture
- Biogeography
- Bryology
- Cladistics
- Comparative anatomy
- Cytology
- Economic botany
- Ethnobotany
- Floristics
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- Genetic engineering
- Horticulture
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- Molecular phylogenetics
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- Numerical taxonomy
- Paleobotany
- Palynology
- Phycology
- Phytochemistry
- Phytogeography
- Plant anatomy
- Plant ecology
- Plant genetics
- Plant morphology
- Plant pathology
- Plant physiology
- Pteridology
- Historia Plantarum and Causes of Plants of Theophrastus c. 300 BC
- De Plantis of Nicolaus of Damascus c. 1st century BC
- De Materia Medica of Dioscorides c. 60 AD
- Naturalis Historia 77–79 AD
- De Vegetabilibus of Albertus Magnus c. 1256
- Herbarum Vivae Icones 1530
- Libellus De Re Herbaria Novus 1538
- Kreütterbuch of Hieronymus Bock 1539
- De plantis libri XVI of Caesalpino 1583
- Stirpium Historiae 1583
- Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes 1597
- Prodromus Theatrici Botanici 1620
- Pinax theatri botanici 1623
- Anatome Plantarum 1675
- Anatomy of Plants 1682
- Historia Plantarum of John Ray 1686–1704
- De Sexu Plantarum Epistola 1694
- Éléments de botanique 1694
- Vegetable Staticks 1727
- Systema Naturae 1735
- Genera Plantarum 1737
- Philosophia Botanica 1751
- Species Plantarum 1753
- Systema Naturae, 10th ed. 1758–59
- Familles des Plantes 1763–64
- Experiments Upon Vegetables 1779
- Die Metamorphose der Pflantzen 1790
- Traité d'Anatomie et de Physiologie Végétale 1802
- Recherches Chimiques sur la Végétation 1804
- Beyträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen 1812
- Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 1824–1873
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- Die Vegetabilische Zelle 1851
- Vergleichende Untersuchungen 1851
- On the Origin of Species 1859
- Experiments on Plant Hybridization 1865
- Die Vegetation der Erde 1872
- Plantesamfund 1895
- Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage 1898
- Variation and Evolution in Plants 1950
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny 1977
- An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants 1981
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- Theophrastus c. 371–287 BC
- Pliny the Elder 23–79 AD
- Pedanius Dioscorides c. 40–90 AD
- Otto Brunfels 1464–1534
- Hieronymus Bock 1498–1554
- Valerius Cordus 1515–1544
- William Turner 1515–1568
- Rembert Dodoens 1517–1585
- Andrea Cesalpino 1519–1603
- Cristóbal Acosta 1525–1594
- Gaspard Bauhin 1560–1624
- Joachim Jungius 1587–1657
- John Ray 1623–1705
- Nehemiah Grew 1628–1711
- Marcello Malpighi 1628–1694
- Joseph Pitton de Tournefort 1656–1708
- Rudolf Jakob Camerarius 1665–1721
- Stephen Hales 1677–1761
- Bernard de Jussieu 1699–1777
- Carolus Linnaeus 1707–1778
- Michel Adanson 1727–1806
- Jan Ingenhousz 1730–1799
- José Celestino Mutis 1732–1808
- Félix de Azara 1742–1821
- Joseph Banks 1743–1820
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
- Carl Ludwig Willdenow 1765–1812
- Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure 1767–1845
- Alexander von Humboldt 1769–1859
- Aimé Bonpland 1773–1858
- Thomas Nuttall 1786–1859
- Joakim Frederik Schouw 1789–1852
- Matthias Jakob Schleiden 1804–1881
- Alexander Braun 1805–1877
- George Engelmann 1809–1884
- Asa Gray 1810–1888
- August Grisebach 1814–1879
- Joseph Hooker 1817–1911
- Gregor Mendel 1822–1884
- Nathanael Pringsheim 1823–1894
- Wilhelm Hofmeister 1824–1877
- Julius von Sachs 1832–1897
- Eugenius Warming 1841–1924
- William Gilson Farlow 1844–1919
- Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper 1856–1901
- Nikolai Vavilov 1887–1943
- Barbara McClintock 1902–1992
- G. Ledyard Stebbins 1906–2000
- Eugene Odum 1913–2002
- Arthur Cronquist 1919–1992
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