Agnes Arber: form in the mind and the eye

Flannery, Maura C.

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“…It is the only work in wetland science I have read solely for pleasure. One of her biographers, Maura Flannery (2005), makes the same point. : "…she is fun to read.…”

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confidence: 98%

Beginnings of Wetland Science in Britain: Agnes Arber and William H. Pearsall

van der Valk

2023

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Wetlands are valuable but threatened natural resources worldwide. While providing a wealth of environmental benefits, wetlands play a vital role in temporarily storing flood waters and thereby reducing the risk of damaging floods. This is important given the predicted impacts of climate change, especially along the world’s coastline and coastal cities. The continued expansion of urban areas is posing a risk to wetlands in and around metropolitan areas. In this article we examine wetland trends in urban areas in three Latin American countries – Chile, Colombia, and Peru.

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“…It is the only work in wetland science I have read solely for pleasure. One of her biographers, Maura Flannery (2005), makes the same point. : "…she is fun to read.…”

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Beginnings of Wetland Science in Britain: Agnes Arber and William H. Pearsall

van der Valk

2023

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“…Agnes Arber (1879Arber ( -1960) was a British biophilosopher, historian of botany, and plant morphologist [8][9][10]. At the 16th International Botanical Congress in 1999, a symposium was held on the relationship between Arber's work and new explanatory models for plant development.…”

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“…(viii) Maybe we need to do more of what Agnes Arber and other morphologists since Goethe have done: Rely more on the visual abilities that draw people to biology. Get a feeling for the organism [8][9][10][11][12]61,134,288,289]. (ix) Last but not least: Celebrate your achievements towards process and continuum thinking with a sip of Agnes-Arber Gin: "A fantastic gin celebrating the renowned botanical historian Agnes Arber".…”

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EvoDevo: Past and Future of Continuum and Process Plant Morphology

Rutishauser

2020

Philosophies

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Plants and animals are both important for studies in evolutionary developmental biology (EvoDevo). Plant morphology as a valuable discipline of EvoDevo is set for a paradigm shift. Process thinking and the continuum approach in plant morphology allow us to perceive and interpret growing plants as combinations of developmental processes rather than as assemblages of structural units (“organs”) such as roots, stems, leaves, and flowers. These dynamic philosophical perspectives were already favored by botanists and philosophers such as Agnes Arber (1879–1960) and Rolf Sattler (*1936). The acceptance of growing plants as dynamic continua inspires EvoDevo scientists such as developmental geneticists and evolutionary biologists to move towards a more holistic understanding of plants in time and space. This review will appeal to many young scientists in the plant development research fields. It covers a wide range of relevant publications from the past to present.

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“…In the development of this framework, Arber explicitly engaged with the philosophy of biology, as discussed in the recent revival of interest in her work(Flannery 2003;Feola 2019). …”

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Visual Evidence and Narrative in Botany and War: Two Domains, One Practice

Haines¹

2022

Narrative Science

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This chapter compares work done by Hugh Hamshaw Thomas in two domains. First, in palaeobotany; second, in military intelligence in the First and Second World Wars. In each, Thomas investigated landscape processes using fragmentary visual evidence: plant evolution from fossils, enemy behaviour from aerial photographs. I propose we understand the connection between those domains by drawing together two, largely separate, scholarly discussions: (i) on the construction and evidential use of photographic archives; (ii) on evidence and causal explanations in the historical sciences. Through analysis of Thomas's palaeobotanical and military work I situate narrative as the central and unifying principle of a practice in which neither evidence collection nor explanatory accounts were prior. This unifying 'narrative practice' was reticulate, multi-scalar and dynamic, as revealed by contemporary figures of speech that sought to describe it (working 'like Sherlock Holmes', 'reading the book of nature', thinking 'like a river'). 9.1

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Agnes Arber: form in the mind and the eye

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Beginnings of Wetland Science in Britain: Agnes Arber and William H. Pearsall

Beginnings of Wetland Science in Britain: Agnes Arber and William H. Pearsall

EvoDevo: Past and Future of Continuum and Process Plant Morphology

Visual Evidence and Narrative in Botany and War: Two Domains, One Practice

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