Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670
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THEIR ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION
A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF BOTANY 1470-1670
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS London: FETTER LANE, E.C. C. F. CLAY, Manager
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HERBALS THEIR ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF BOTANY 1470-1670 BY AGNES ARBER (Mrs. E. A. NEWELL ARBER) D.Sc., F.L.S., FELLOW OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AND OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON Cambridge: at the University Press 1912 Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TO MY FATHER
H. R. ROBERTSON
“Wherefore it maye please your ... gentlenes to take these my labours in good worthe, not according unto their unworthines, but accordinge unto my good mind and will, offering and gevinge them unto you.”
Agnes Robertson Arber
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HERBALS
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Introductory.
2. Aristotelian Botany.
3. Medicinal Botany.
1. The Encyclopædia of Bartholomæus Anglicus and ‘The Book of Nature.’
2. The Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus.
3. The Latin Herbarius.
4. The German Herbarius and related Works.
5. The Hortus Sanitatis.
1. The Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus.
2. Banckes’ Herbal.
3. The Grete Herball.
1. The Herbal in Germany.
2. The Herbal in the Low Countries.
3. The Herbal in Italy.
4. The Herbal in Switzerland.
5. The Herbal in France.
6. The Herbal in England.
7. The Revival of Aristotelian Botany.
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX