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CAMERARIUS, Rudolph Jakob (1665-1721). "De sexu plantarum epistola." In: Miscellanea curiosa sive ephemeridum medico-physicarum germanicarum Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae naturae curiosorum decuriae III. annus tertius... Appendix pp. 31-36. Leipzig: Thomas Fritsch and Frankfurt: Johann Philipp Andrea, 1696.
4o (195 x 158 mm). Engraved title and 10 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.
Camerarius' most important scientific achievement was the experimental demonstration of the sexuality of plants. He explained his findings in a long letter to Michael Bernhard Valentini, they where first published as a separate pamphlet in 1694, of which only a very few copies survive today. The above second printing (Appendix pp. 31-36) is followed by the first printing of Valentini's response to the letter (Appendix pp. 37-40). Norman 392.
[Bound with:] CAMERER. Miscellanea Curiosa... annus quartus. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Michael Rdinger and Engelbert Streck, 1697. 4o. Engraved title and 10 engraved plates.
4o (195 x 158 mm). Engraved title and 10 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.
Camerarius' most important scientific achievement was the experimental demonstration of the sexuality of plants. He explained his findings in a long letter to Michael Bernhard Valentini, they where first published as a separate pamphlet in 1694, of which only a very few copies survive today. The above second printing (Appendix pp. 31-36) is followed by the first printing of Valentini's response to the letter (Appendix pp. 37-40). Norman 392.
[Bound with:] CAMERER. Miscellanea Curiosa... annus quartus. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Michael Rdinger and Engelbert Streck, 1697. 4o. Engraved title and 10 engraved plates.