LIBROS DEL AUTOR: edmund berkeley

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John Clayton

Dorothy Smith Berkeley / Edmund Berkeley

As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica, published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton, it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted so...

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Doctor Alexander Garden of Charles Town

Dorothy Smith Berkeley / Edmund Berkeley

This is a first biography of Alexander Garden, a famous physician of colonial times who was also an influential participant in the city of Charles Town’s pre-Revolutionary intellectual and cultural life. His botanical interest and pursuits very much influenced the planting of Charleston’s now famous gardens. The book will be valuable to the intellectual, cultural, and science h...

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76,80 €
Understanding Bible Prophecy

Edmund Berkeley Hammond

Since his water baptism as a teenager, Edmund Berkeley Hammond (known by the nickname of 'Berk') has always tried to be a good Christian. However, his work as a Christian truly began in 1972 when he received a supernatural message from God, calling him to be an interpreter of the prophetic scriptures of the Bible. Since receiving this call, he has written more than 20 short pap...

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Dr. John Mitchell

Edmund Berkeley

This is the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of North America. He left a well-established medical practice in his native Virginia in 1746 to live in London where he became active in scientific, social, and political circles. One of the period’s outstanding cartographical achievements, Mitchell’s map served as th...

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64,13 €