TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mabberley,D.J.
TI  - Botanical revelation: European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin 
SN  - 9781742236476
U1  - 581.994 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - NewSouth Publishing
KW  - Botanical artists
KW  - Botanical illustration
KW  - Botanists
KW  - Botany
KW  - Plants
KW  - Pflanzen
KW  - Forschungsreisender
KW  - Botanisieren
KW  - Pflanzendarstellung
KW  - Australia
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Europe
KW  - Australien
KW  - Australian
N1  - "The Peter Crossing collection" -- Cover; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In Botanical revelation, David Mabberley provides the first in-depth analysis of European understanding of Australia's flora before he arrival of Charles Darwin in 1836. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this illustrated book -- with many never-before-published images -- reveals the motives and complex networks that led to an international spread of knowledge and the cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe. The influence on European thinkers Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Alexander von Humbolt of Joseph Banks on Cook's first voyage and Robert Brown on Flinders' is explored, along with Spanish, French, Austrian, German and American botanists, horticulturalists and botanical artists. The exquisite and ground-breaking collaborations between artist Ferdinand Bauer and Robert Brown, and Pierre-Joseph Redoute and the French school, are also fully analysed. Based on the superb Peter Crossing Collection, Botanical revelation documents an important phase in the understanding of Australia's flora, and science more generally. One which laid the groundwork for Darwin's theory of evolution
ER  -