The Plant Trivia TimeLine
The Plant Trivia TimeLine is extensive, well over 100 pages of normal text. That makes the TimeLine too unwieldy to load as a single webpage. I’m offering two options, therefore. You can browse a PDF using the blue box below. Further down, I provide a segmented version, offered as webpages.
To browse the entire TimeLine, follow the link, or hit DOWNLOAD below for a 2 megabyte PDF of the Plant Trivia TimeLine (PTTL), with entries covering developments of note in the history of people-plant interactions. Topics range across many fields: agriculture, art, descriptive botany, ecology, food science, forestry, gardening, indigenous use, industry, landscape, medicine, natural history, and physiology. Take a moment to browse the appended Footsteps section, which attempts to create subject-area context for some of the TimeLine entries.
The TimeLine as WebPages…
Age of Printing and Discovery: 1450-1700
Awakening of Science & Industry: 1700-1800
Biology & Agriculture Emerge: 1800-1849
Society Conquers Nature: 1850-1900
Humans Take the Reigns: 1900-1953
The Natural World Retaliates: 1953-Future
Footsteps
Attempting to complement the TimeLine, I’m working through the chronology to craft more complete stories about historical development of ideas. I group these essays as Footsteps, offering breadcrumb explanations as to how society has arrived at our understanding of plants.
Footsteps – Botanical History in Cultural Context