Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany

by Agnes Arber

16 chapters5h 25mEnglish1912

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Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to catalogue the uses of different kinds of plants. While Herbals often reflected pre-scientific and magical beliefs about the properties of plants, Arber's work reveals that they were also critical to the early development of botany and medicine as empirical sciences. A classic in the history of science. - Summary by Josh Leach

Chapters (15)

1I: The Early History of Botany

1452

2II: The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century)

1678

3III: The Early History of the Herbal in England

1433

4IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 1. The Herbal in Germany

1429

5IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 2. The Herbal in the Low Countries

959

6IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 3. The Herbal in Italy

636

7IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 4. The Herbal in Switzerland

791

8IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 5. The Herbal in France

208

9IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 6. The Herbal in England

1896

10IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 7. The Revival of Aristotelian Botany

264

11V: The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description

1360

12VI: The Evolution of Plant Classification

1676

13VII: The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration

3011

14VIII: The Doctrine of Signatures and Astrological Botany

1711

15IX: Conclusions

471

Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany

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