In the sixteenth century the same spirit which inspired Vesalius and others in the field of anatomy served also as the inspiration for the study of flora from actual specimens, culminating in what is certainly the most celebrated and probably the most beautiful herbal ever published, Fuchs’ De historia stirpium commentarii Basel, 1542. Leonhart FuchsContinue reading “Notes from the Rare Book Room: The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs”
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