Stephen Hales's 1727 "Vegetable Staticks" is a foundational work in botany, detailing experiments on plant physiology. It pioneered quantitative methods in biology, introducing concepts like transpiration and root pressure through meticulous measurements.
Sources for Stephen Hales — Vegetable Staticks
Stephen Hales — Vegetable Staticks in Botany
Held in the Botany chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Nehemiah Grew — The Anatomy of Plants (1682)
- Asa Gray — The Elements of Botany (1887)
- Charles Darwin — Insectivorous Plants (1875)
- Charles Darwin — The Power of Movement in Plants (1880)
- Carl Linnaeus — Species Plantarum (1753)
- Theophrastus — Enquiry into Plants (Historia Plantarum) (c. 300 BCE)
- Joseph Dalton Hooker — The Flora of British India (1872–1897)