Vegetable Staticks Or An Account Of Some Statical Experiments On The Sap In Vegetables Being An

by Stephen Hales

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First edition

London: Printed for W. and J. Innys & T. Woodward, 1727. First edition, and a particularly handsome copy, of this important work on plant nutrition, experimental physiology, and pneumatic chemistry. “He studied the movement of sap in plants and discovered what is known now as root pressure. He measured the amount of water lost by plants through evaporation and related this to the amount of water present in a

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