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

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

Author(s): Agnes Arber,

Language: English
Genre(s): Early ModernHistoryLife SciencesNon-fictionScience

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16 Chapter(s)
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. I: The Early History of Botany
  • 3. II: The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century)
  • 4. III: The Early History of the Herbal in England
  • 5. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 1. The Herbal in Germany
  • 6. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 2. The Herbal in the Low Countries
  • 7. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 3. The Herbal in Italy
  • 8. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 4. The Herbal in Switzerland
  • 9. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 5. The Herbal in France
  • 10. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 6. The Herbal in England
  • 11. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 7. The Revival of Aristotelian Botany
  • 12. V: The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description
  • 13. VI: The Evolution of Plant Classification
  • 14. VII: The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration
  • 15. VIII: The Doctrine of Signatures and Astrological Botany
  • 16. IX: Conclusions

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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

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