Asa Gray (Author of The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools)

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Asa Gray

Born

in Sauquoit, New York, The United States

November 18, 1810

Died

January 30, 1888

Genre

Botany, Science, Christian

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Asa Gray, botanist and the chief advocate of theories of Charles Robert Darwin, greatly enlarged and improved the description of North American flora.

People consider the most important Asa Gray of the 19th century. They consider his Darwiniana as an important explanation of not necessarily mutually exclusive religion and science. Gray adamantly insisted that a genetic connection must exist between all members of a species. He also strongly opposed the ideas of hybridization within one generation and the special sense that allowed not a Creator to guide evolution.

As a professor at Harvard University for several decades, Gray regularly visited, and corresponded with, many of the leading natural scientists of the era, including those who ...more

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	The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools 3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1887	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwiniana 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1877 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natural Science and Religion, 2 Lectures 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1880 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Plants Grow it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 156 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1899 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany," and "Field, Forest, and Garden Botany," Bound in One Volume it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gray's Botanical text-book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gray's Lessons in Botany. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Botany for Young People: , How Plants Behave, Vol. 2: How They Move, Climb, Employ Insects to Work for Them,& C it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.”
― Asa Gray

tags: analogy, biology, course, evolution, friction, natural-selection, rudder, science, shape, ship, vessel

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“We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.”
― Asa Gray, Letters Of Asa Gray V2

tags: analogy, animals, charles-darwin, darwin, democracy, kingdom, philosophy, plants, science, species, vegetables

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“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

[It had formerly been held that there were no genetic connections among species.]”
― Asa Gray

tags: agassiz, biology, evolution, jean-louis-rodolphe-agassiz, louis-agassiz, science

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