H Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 Agnes Robertson Arber
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Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution

A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670

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  1. Preface

    9:36

  2. I: The Early History of Botany

    24:12

  3. II: The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century)

    27:58

  4. III: The Early History of the Herbal in England

    23:53

  5. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 1. The Herbal in Germany

    23:49

  6. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 2. The Herbal in the Low Countries

    15:59

  7. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 3. The Herbal in Italy

    10:36

  8. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 4. The Herbal in Switzerland

    13:11

  9. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 5. The Herbal in France

    3:28

  10. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 6. The Herbal in England

    31:36

  11. IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 7. The Revival of Aristotelian Botany

    4:24

  12. V: The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description

    22:40

  13. VI: The Evolution of Plant Classification

    27:56

  14. VII: The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration

    50:11

  15. VIII: The Doctrine of Signatures and Astrological Botany

    28:31

  16. IX: Conclusions

    7:51

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Early printed plant books sit at the meeting point of observation, language and drawing in Agnes Robertson Arber's 1912 study. Tracing herbals from 1470 to 1670, she follows their development through several countries and examines how writers described, classified and pictured plants. Her account draws on old volumes she studied in libraries, with reproductions of illustrations that let readers compare botanical knowledge with the work of artists.

Specific passages bring the changes into focus. Arber contrasts Hieronymus Bock's vivid descriptions with Leonhard Fuchs's more methodical German text and discusses the technical glossary in his Latin work. Mistletoe and butterbur become examples of how shape, colour and seasonal growth could be recorded in words. She also considers how an artist's close attention to form sharpened a botanist's eye. For readers interested in natural history or early book illustration, these comparisons show how the printed page helped develop ways of studying plants.

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