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Nehemiah Grew

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Nehemiah Grew 1641-1712, English botanist and physician. Grew practiced medicine in London and made important microscopic studies of plants. He made what were probably the first observations of sex in plants. His most noted book is his Anatomy of Plants (1682), in which are included a number of papers on chemistry. He also wrote Anatomy of Vegetables Begun (1672) and Comparative Anatomy of Trunks (1675). Author not available, GREW, NEHEMIAH. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

History of Biology: Cell Theory and Cell Structure
Biology ... Malpighi (1628 – 1694), and Hooke's colleague, Nehemiah Grew (1641 – 1712), made detailed studies of plant cells ... presence of cellular structures throughout the plant body. Grew likened the cellular spaces to the gas bubbles in rising ... Read more

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... their discoveries made by the use of the instrument and for their new designs and improvements, among them G. B. Amici, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Marcello Malpighi, and Jan Swammerdam. The compound microscope is widely used ... Read more

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