Herbals

About this eBook

Author

Arber, Agnes Robertson, 1879-1960

Title

Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Botany -- Europe -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46889

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46889

Release Date

September 18, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HERBALS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.FIGURES IN THE TEXT 1
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE EARLY HISTORY OF BOTANY — 1. Introductory. — 2. Aristotelian Botany. — 3. Medicinal Botany.
7. 7.CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST PRINTED HERBALS — 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.
8. 8.CHAPTER III THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE HERBAL IN ENGLAND — 1. The Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus. — 2. Banckes’ Herbal. — 3. The Grete Herball.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE BOTANICAL RENAISSANCE OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES — 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.
10. 10.CHAPTER V THE EVOLUTION OF THE ART OF PLANT DESCRIPTION
11. 11.CHAPTER VI THE EVOLUTION OF PLANT CLASSIFICATION
12. 12.CHAPTER VII THE EVOLUTION OF THE ART OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES AND ASTROLOGICAL BOTANY
14. 14.CHAPTER IX CONCLUSIONS
15. 15.APPENDIX I
16. 16.APPENDIX II
17. 17.FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.INDEX

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