Project Gutenberg 2014-06-08 Public domain in the USA. 231 Candolle, Alphonse de 1806 1893 Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de De Candolle, Alphonse DeCandolle, Alph. (Alphonse) Origin of Cultivated Plants The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII Produced by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Origin of Cultivated Plants" by Alphonse de Candolle is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This extensive work explores the origins of cultivated plants, focusing on their historical cultivation, geographical spread, and the factors that contributed to their domestication. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between plants and early civilizations, engaging readers interested in botany, agriculture, and history. At the start of the book, the author introduces the subject by emphasizing the importance of understanding the origins of cultivated plants for various audiences, including agriculturists, botanists, and historians. He reflects on the complexities involved in determining the native habitats of different species and critiques historical inaccuracies regarding the origins that have persisted through time. He outlines the various methods he employs to discover and prove the origins of cultivated plants, including botanical observations, archaeological evidence, and historical records. Additionally, he discusses the need to rely on a combination of these methods to arrive at solid conclusions concerning the history and diffusion of various cultivated species. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45917/45917-h/images/cover.jpg en Plants, Cultivated Botany, Economic SB Text Browsing: Cooking & Drinking Browsing: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming Browsing: Science - General 1680744 1680760 2024-09-19T08:49:51.776909 2023-09-20T05:13:25.956841 text/html text/html 1710149 2014-06-08T09:03:44 text/html; charset=utf-8 512690 2014-06-08T09:05:02 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 538009 2024-09-19T08:50:24.628238 application/epub+zip 564114 2024-09-19T08:49:57.539867 application/epub+zip 559531 2024-09-19T08:49:54.094866 application/epub+zip 1133261 2024-09-19T08:50:41.053155 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1046097 2024-09-19T08:50:21.532250 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1038725 2022-09-20T21:22:29.057673 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1077787 2024-09-19T08:49:44.279935 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1086550 2014-06-08T09:03:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 377042 2014-06-08T09:05:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1076389 2014-06-08T09:04:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 375377 2014-06-08T09:05:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1077176 2014-06-08T09:04:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 374804 2014-06-08T09:05:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21929 2024-09-19T08:50:41.951124 application/rdf+xml 26579 2024-09-19T08:49:55.446858 image/jpeg 3755 2024-09-19T08:49:55.227909 image/jpeg 495167 2024-09-19T08:49:51.890973 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog