Fuchs herbal is regarded as perhaps the most beautiful of all printed herbals. This is taken to include botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology and zoology, the lives of. Leonart historia stirpium commentarij insignes fuchs. Esemplare di carlina acaulis definito da fuchs come chamaeleon albus. Some of the early books printed from moveable type in europe in the late 15th century were herbals, books about the medicinal uses of plants as well as some animal and mineral products. The work covers about 497 plants and has over 500 woodcut illustrations. 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. The biodiversity heritage library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. 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. Octavo digital edition by fuchs, leonhart illustrated by albert meyer, heinrich fullmaurer, and veit rudolph speckle.
The herbal, a compilation of information on the medicinal properties of plants, had declined in the middle ages. Leonhart fuchs splendidly illustrated renaissance herbal. This file is licensed under the creative commons attribution 4. During the european renaissance, medical treatments were based on botany, but the herbals and other books available to practitioners often inaccurately identified plants. John lewis heller and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. As many as thirtytwo adaptations and translations of this innovative study were published during fuchss lifetime. 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.
Request pdf on apr 1, 2003, michael heinrich and others published the great herbal of leonard fuchs 2 vols. Over 100 of the plants in the book were first descriptions. Historia stirpium commentarii insignes, used abebooks. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations. This is taken to include botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology and zoology, the lives of naturalists, their publications, correspondence. Accesit iis, succinta admodum vocum quarundam subobscurarum in hoc opere passim occurrentium explanatio.
Het plantengeslacht fuchsia is in 1703 door charles plumier naar fuchs genoemd. Its patent success, largely due to its superb and realistic illustrations, was enhanced by an active editorial policy of judicious. Leonhart fuchs wikisource, the free online library. The first vocabulary of botanical terms is contained in the introduction.
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