William Carey. Missionary and Botanist.
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1st edition. "The first part of this book summarises Carey's early life and the missionary enterprise, including his brilliant linguistic achievements and his deep knowledge of Indian religious li...
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1st edition. "The first part of this book summarises Carey's early life and the missionary enterprise, including his brilliant linguistic achievements and his deep knowledge of Indian religious literature.Part II seeks to place botany in the scientific context of the time, shows how Carey's boyhood love of plants and gardens led to botany, discusses in non-technical language his place in the botany of the beginning of the nineteenth centuy and his important contributions to it, and his introduction to Bengal of the new technologies of the steam engine and continuous paper-making." Pp.156, 12 colour plates. Paperback. VG.
Product Info
ISBN: 0646452800
ISBN-13: 9780646452807
Publisher: Kew, Victoria (Australia: Carey Baptist Grammar School, 2005. 0646452800
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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