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    death. Hales is best known for his Statical Essays. The first volume, Vegetable Staticks (1727), contains an account of experiments in plant physiology and...
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    Father of Plant Physiology for the many experiments in the 1727 book, Vegetable Staticks; though Julius von Sachs unified the pieces of plant physiology and...
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    p. 58. Hales, Stephen (1727). Vegetable Staticks: Or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables: ... London, England: W. & J. Innys...
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    analyses of the various properties of them. He published his book Vegetable Staticks in 1727, which had a profound impact on the field of pneumatic chemistry...
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  • Jantar Mantar observatory at Jaipur. Rev. Stephen Hales publishes Vegetable Staticks, containing an account of key experiments in plant physiology; and...
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    London. Hales, Stephen (1727). Vegetable Staticks: Or, an Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables: Being an Essay Towards a Natural...
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    Stephen Hales, for example, had written about the phenomenon in the Vegetable Staticks in 1722. In the last two decades of the eighteenth century, as more...
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    1686–1704 De Sexu Plantarum Epistola 1694 Éléments de botanique 1694 Vegetable Staticks 1727 Systema Naturae 1735 Genera Plantarum 1737 Philosophia Botanica...
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    considered the father of plant physiology for his many experiments in Vegetable Staticks [fr] (1727). As for Carl Linnaeus, he is widely recognized as the...
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    were published in Vegetable Staticks (1727) He also noted that "air makes a very considerable part of the substance of vegetables". English chemist Joseph...
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  • physiologist. She translated two of his works; Haemastaticks and Vegetable Staticks. Aside from Ardinghelli's historical invisibility, she managed to...
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    of the pioneering English plant physiologist Stephen Hales's book Vegetable Staticks published in 1727. Hales observed that plants lose water by "perspiration"...
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