Paper, 'A history of vegetables' by Daniel Cox [Coxe]
Reference number: CLP/10i/8
Date: 1668
Description
Coxe writes a history of vegetables and the knowledge of vegetables, touching on the division of plants into types, the importance of earth, water, and air to the growth of vegetables, how vegetables receive nourishment, poisonous vegetables, and medical properties of vegetables.
Subject: Botany
Read to the Royal Society on 4 June 1668.
- Reference number
- CLP/10i/8
- Earliest possible date
- 1668
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 12 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'A history of vegetables' by Daniel Cox [Coxe], 1668, CLP/10i/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_8/paper-a-history-of-vegetables-by-daniel-cox-coxe, accessed on 20 April 2025
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