Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
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<strong>Annals</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Philosophy</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Biology</strong>, Vol. 10 (2005)<br />
Nicolas Robin & Frank Hellwig<br />
in his Mémoires de physique et d’histoire naturelle, <strong>the</strong> latter set out <strong>the</strong> germination as <strong>the</strong> first<br />
moment <strong>of</strong> vegetation. In order to explain <strong>the</strong> germination, he distinguished three main<br />
causes:<br />
“1. de l’humidité qui pénètre la semence […]; 2. du contact de l’air qui favorise le déplacement et<br />
le mouvement des fluides […]; 3. de l’action d’un certain degré de chaleur nécessaire pour exciter<br />
les premiers mouvements organiques du végétal naissant.” 53<br />
Figure 1. J. H. Jaume Saint-Hilaire, Exposition des familles naturelles et de la germination des plantes,<br />
1805.<br />
influence <strong>of</strong> a “stimulus de la liqueur ou de la vapeur fécondante” between fertilization <strong>and</strong> germination.<br />
Lamarck, J.-B. Mémoires de Physiques et d’histoire naturelle […]. Paris, 1797: p. 285.<br />
53 Lamarck, J.-B. 1797. Op. cit. supra: p. 287.
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