Dodonæus, Rembert Dodoens, 1517-1585, physician at Malines, Belgium.
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Edrisi, or Alidrisi, an Arab nobleman, born about a.d. 1099 in Spain, living at King Roger’s court, Palermo, where he compiled, in 1153, his remarkable geographical work. It summarizes all the earlier geographic literature of the Arabs, adding much valuable information gathered by the author from merchants and other travellers.—Géographie d’Edrisi, traduite en français, par P. Amedée Jaubert, 2 vols. Paris, 1836-1840. Description de l’Afrique et de l’Espagne, trad. par Dozy. Leyde, 1866.
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Fernandez, latinized Ferrandus. Born at Madrid 1478. From 1514 to 1525 he was “veedor de las fundiciones do oro de Tierra-firma in America,” i.e. superintendent of the foundries of gold in the American continent; died 1537 in Valladolid. Historia general y natural de las Indias islas y tierra firme del mar oceano por el Capitan Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, primer chronista del nuevo mundo. Publ. dal codice orig. y illustr. p. J. Amador de los Rios. This complete edition has been published in 4 vols., from 1853 to 1855, by the Academy of Madrid. We have not seen the earlier partial editions, viz. “Summario de la natural y general Historia de las Indias,” Toledo, 1526, fol., “Primera parte de la Historia natural y general de las Indias,” Sevilla, por Cromberger, 1535, fol.; nor “Cronica de las Indias,” 1547. See also Colmeiro, La Botanica y los Botánicos de la peninsula Hispano-Lusitana, Madrid, 1858, 26, No. 220 (Fernandez) and 149; also Haller, Bibl. botanica, i. 272, who calls him Gundisalvus or Gonsalvus Hernandez. He is also quoted by others as Oviedo.
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Fuchs, Leonhard, 1501-1566, Professor of medicine in the University of Tübingen from 1535 to 1566, author of De historia stirpium commentarii insignes.... Basileæ, 1542, fol., a work equally remarkable for the excellent woodcuts and the careful descriptions.
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Galenos, Claudius Galenus Pergamenus, a.d. 131-200, a most distinguished medical writer, imperial physician at Rome. Many drugs and officinal plants are mentioned in his numerous works, which were held in the highest reputation during the middle ages.