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BONNET (Charles). Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles...

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BONNET (Charles). Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes, et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l'histoire de la végétation. Gottingue & Leide, Luzac, 1754. In-4 paperback, waiting cover. 31 folding engraved plates. This work marks the beginning of research on photosynthesis, the basis of the most important metabolic process on earth. DSB: "For his masterly experimentation Bonnet should be considered one of the first naturalists to investigate experimentally the question of photosynthesis". Ex-libris of the botanist Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789) of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

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