Quite interesting reading this . Thanks for sharing . regards, Rashida.
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Something interesting from History > Ref. A book "FLOWER HUNTERS" by Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin > > Carl Linnaeus had observed the time that flowers capable of growing in > Sweden opened and closed each day and he devised a plan which arranged > plants opening and closing at different times of day so enabling him to > plant a 'floral clock' that could (hopefully) determine the time accurately > within half an hour. > There is no record of Linnaeus actually managing to cultivate such a clock, > and the idea, which he published in *Philosophica botanica* in 1751, may > well have been theoretical rather than practical garden project. > He backed from the idea for his son Carl Linnaeus,who began to write a > paper on the same project. > This thesis (*Horologium Plantarium*)was never completed and Carl seem to > have become disenchanted by the idea. > > Some references on Net > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A5170024 > http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis/doc28.html >
