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title: BOTANY, EXPERIMENT J. Sénebier

subject date: 2016-02-02

caption: Jean Senebier (1742-1809) Swiss naturalist and writer. Table illustrating an experiment on plant respiration: a plant is shut up in a fishbowl partially filled with water in which it was put carbonic acid; the green parts of the plant absorb carbon dioxide breaking it down depending on the light energy into oxygen, which is returned to the atmosphere, and carbon that is assimilated into plant matter. Switzerland, eighteenth century

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continent: Europa

image century : XVIII

image epoch: Illuminismo

subject century: XVIII

subject epoch: Illuminismo

technique: Incisione colorata

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