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 ==== Introduction ==== ==== Introduction ====
    
- <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603591016/" title="Picture 5 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5603591016_dd7d797391_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Picture 5"></a></html>---At the beginning of the twentieth century Viennese biologist + <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603591016/" title="Picture 5 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5603591016_dd7d797391_s.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="Picture 5"></a></html>---At the beginning of the twentieth century Viennese biologist 
 Raoul Francé put forth the idea, shocking to contemporary natural philosophers, that plants move their bodies as freely, easily, and gracefully as the most skilled animal or human, and  Raoul Francé put forth the idea, shocking to contemporary natural philosophers, that plants move their bodies as freely, easily, and gracefully as the most skilled animal or human, and 
 that the only reason we don't appreciate the fact is that plants do so at  that the only reason we don't appreciate the fact is that plants do so at 
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 not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine.  not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine. 
 **Could the plant have been reading his mind**? **Could the plant have been reading his mind**?
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 +related libarinth topics:// 
 +  * [[plant perception]]
 +  * [[groworld HPI ii]]
  
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 ==== Latest Soviet Discoveries ==== ==== Latest Soviet Discoveries ====
    
-<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603081691/" title="Picture 21 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5603081691_bd6820b484.jpg" width="73" height="110" alt="Picture 21"></a></html>---film by Panishkin "Are Plants Sentient?"+<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603081691/" title="Picture 21 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5603081691_bd6820b484.jpg" width="53" height="90" alt="Picture 21"></a></html>---film by Panishkin "Are Plants Sentient?"
  
 ---biologist Karamanov published "**The Application of Automation and Cybernetics to Plant Husbandry.**" He builded a.o. microthermistors, weight tensiometers, to register the temperature of plants, the flow rate of fluid in their stems ---biologist Karamanov published "**The Application of Automation and Cybernetics to Plant Husbandry.**" He builded a.o. microthermistors, weight tensiometers, to register the temperature of plants, the flow rate of fluid in their stems
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 that in the next quarter century such photoelements could be manufac·  that in the next quarter century such photoelements could be manufac· 
 tured on an industrial scale and would be a hundred times cheaper than  tured on an industrial scale and would be a hundred times cheaper than 
-silicone solar batteries now being experimented with.  Pg 76 related libarint topic; [[luminous phoef]]+silicone solar batteries now being experimented with.  Pg 76  
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 +related topic//  [[luminous:phoef]]
  
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 the soil. Leaves turn to light because they are "heliotropic" or "phototropic." Roots questing water are described as "hydrotropic," and those  the soil. Leaves turn to light because they are "heliotropic" or "phototropic." Roots questing water are described as "hydrotropic," and those 
 bending against the flow of a stream "rheatropic." The tendril's touch  bending against the flow of a stream "rheatropic." The tendril's touch 
-is known as its "thigmotropism." Pg 99.    related libarinth topic  * [[plant movement]]+is known as its "thigmotropism." Pg 99.   
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 +related libarinth topic//  * [[plant movement]]
  
 ---Bose now in retirement summud his scientific philosophy: ---Bose now in retirement summud his scientific philosophy:
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 the plant's own signature.**  the plant's own signature.** 
  
- +==== The Metamorphosis of Plants ==== 
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 === related libarynth topics === === related libarynth topics ===
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