New herbal, extracts, english, glasgow library archive. This file contains additional information such as exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. The work covers about 497 plants and has over 500 woodcut illustrations. Accesit iis, succinta admodum vocum quarundam subobscurarum in hoc opere passim occurrentium explanatio. Leonhart fuchs wikisource, the free online library. Over 100 of the plants in the book were first descriptions. Leonhart fuchs splendidly illustrated renaissance herbal. Foreign visitors to german museums may have noted that the word kunst nowadays denotes a arta, but an older, now obsolete, meaning was a sciencea. Het plantengeslacht fuchsia is in 1703 door charles plumier naar fuchs genoemd. Celebrated herbal the most celebrated herbal in which about 400 german.
The 54 surviving handcoloured copies of the first edition, as here, were coloured according to his own specific guidelines, and based on a set of original drawings now lost. Request pdf on apr 1, 2003, michael heinrich and others published the great herbal of leonard fuchs 2 vols. As many as thirtytwo adaptations and translations of this innovative study were published during fuchss lifetime. Kort daarna volgden franse, duitse en nederlandse uitgaven. This file is licensed under the creative commons attribution 4.
This is taken to include botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology and zoology, the lives of naturalists, their publications, correspondence. Celebrated herbal the most celebrated herbal in which about 400 german and 100 foreign plants are treated and beautifully illustrated by over 500 fullpage woodcuts. Probably the first book which contains not only the names, but also the ports. Historia stirpium commentarii insignes, used abebooks. Leonart historia stirpium commentarij insignes fuchs. Octavo digital edition by fuchs, leonhart illustrated by albert meyer, heinrich fullmaurer, and veit rudolph speckle. The biodiversity heritage library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. During the european renaissance, medical treatments were based on botany, but the herbals and other books available to practitioners often inaccurately identified plants. The 512 superb woodcut illustrations set the standard for fidelity and artistry in the depiction of plants. Its patent success, largely due to its superb and realistic illustrations, was enhanced by an active editorial policy of judicious. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations. Esemplare di carlina acaulis definito da fuchs come chamaeleon albus.
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