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Why JC Bose isn’t Isaac Newton

Posted on February 2, 2015 by

David Beerling, a botanist at the University of Sheffield, writes in Nature Plants this week that Isaac Newton knew in the 17th century how water moved up from the soil through a plant and onto a leaf centuries before modern botanists discovered … Continue reading →

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