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Their Origin and Evolution, a Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670

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Paperback | 9 February 1987 | Edition Number 3

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Herbals deal primarily with medicinal and culinary herbs, their real and supposed properties and virtues, and in origin they go back at least to the Ancient Greeks. During the 16th and 17th centuries they developed into attractively illustrated printed books, the forerunners of modern botanical and pharmaceutical textbooks. Agnes Arber''s Herbals (first published in 1912, much revised in 1938) stands as the major survey of the period 1470 to 1670 when botany evolved into a scientific discipline separate from herbalism, a development reflected in contemporary herbals. Every work on herbals since 1912 has been indebted to Arber''s classic.

The present volume in the Cambridge Science Classics series, while retaining her main text unaltered, supplements this with two of her later writings on herbals, provides a biographical introduction, greatly extends the bibliography and has annotations modifying the original text through later enquiry.

This added material will make this re-issue invaluable to librarians, historians of science, book-lovers and all with an interest in the early development of botany, pharmacy and book production, even if they already possess the long-unobtainable 1938 edition.

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Non-Fiction Science Biology, Life Sciences Botany & Plant Sciences Science in General History of Science

Preface to the second edition, 1938	p. vii
From the Preface to the first edition, 1912	p. xi
Introduction, 'Agnes Arber's Herbals'	p. xxv
The Early History of Botany
Introductory	p. 1
Aristotelian Botany	p. 2
Medicinal Botany	p. 6
The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century)
The Encyclopaedia of Bartholomaeus Anglicus and The Book of Nature	p. 13
The Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus	p. 14
The Latin Herbarius	p. 20
The German Herbarius and related works	p. 22
The Hortus (Ortus) sanitatis	p. 28
The Early History of the Herbal in England
The Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus	p. 38
Banckes' Herball	p. 41
The grete herball	p. 44
The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Herbal in Germany	p. 52
The Herbal in the Low Countries	p. 79
The Herbal in Italy	p. 92
The Herbal in Spain and Portugal	p. 104
The Herbal in Switzerland	p. 110
The Herbal in France	p. 116
The Herbal in England	p. 119
The Origin of Herbaria	p. 138
The Revival of Aristotelian Botany	p. 143
The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description	p. 146
The Evolution of Plant Classification	p. 163
The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration	p. 185
The Doctrine of Signatures, and Astrological Botany	p. 247
Conclusions	p. 264
A chronological list of the principal herbals and related botanical works published between 1470 and 1670	p. 271
An alphabetical list of the historical and critical works consulted during the preparation of this book (1938) with additional references marked	p. 286
Subject Index to Appendix II	p. 303
Annotations	p. 308
Appendix V
Offprint: The colouring of sixteenth-century herbals	p. 315
Reprint: From medieval herbalism to the birth of modern botany	p. 319
Index	p. 339
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Their Origin and Evolution, a Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670

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