Scientific inventions of Stephen Hales in a garden

Garden landscape with inventions of Stephen Hales using a bell jar and pneumatic trough for scientific experiments on plant physiology and transpiration in plants. Stephen Hales, natural philosopher, botanist, chemist and inventor, author of Vegetable Staticks, 1677-1761. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by William Hopwood from Dr. Robert John Thornton's New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1800

18th Century Botanical Illustration Botanist Dr. Robert John Thornton History Of Science Stipple Engraving Temple Of Flora Transpiration William Hopwood

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