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28 de jun. de 2006 · No matter how small, packed into every seed is the complete genetic information needed to give rise to a new plant, whether it is a tiny herb or a giant rainforest tree. True time capsules of life, seeds may travel thousands of miles and, if necessary, wait for hundreds of years before germinating.
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Seeds: Time Capsules of Life. Rob Kesseler, Wolfgang Stuppy. Firefly Books, 2006 - Gardening - 264 pages. A remarkable collaboration of art and science celebrating the diversity of seeds....
12 de sept. de 2006 · All seeds have the same purpose -- to travel through time and space until they reach the right place at the right moment to create a new plant. This large-format book melds art and science in an authoritative examination of the design and function of seeds.
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- Rob Kesseler, Wolfgang Stuppy
Time Capsules of Life. Rob Kesseler & Wolfgang Stuppy. An award-winning, beautiful, and fascinating natural history of seeds, jointly created by an artist and a scientist, now with a fully updated text and new images. 265 × 290 mm. 264 pages. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-906506-75-9. £40.00. Subjects: Photography, Natural History. September 2024.
Seeds: Time Capsules of Life is an essential source book not only for those fascinated by the natural world, but also for artists and designers, and anyone interested in the development of biological structures. We are all familiar with seeds, but never has their structure been revealed so powerfully.
True time capsules of life, seeds may travel thousands of miles and wait, if necessary, for hundreds of years before they germinate. In this book, artist Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, present a natural history of seeds, illustrated with close-up photographs and scanning electron micrographs.
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All seeds have the same purpose -- to travel through time and space until they reach the right place at the right moment to create a new plant. This large-format book melds art and science in an authoritative examination of the design and function of seeds.
- Tapa dura
