Abstract
Plant physiologists generally credit van Helmont (1577-1644) with one of the first recorded experiments in plant science. Indeed, historians of natural science frequently refer to his work as a very early example of a deliberate experiment to test a hypothesis. The experiment in question was performed with a willow twig; and its purpose, it has been suggested, was to test the Aristotelian doctrine that the nourish-
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