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Book SynopsisLeonhart Fuchs's herbal recognized for more than four centuries as a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and one of the most beautiful books ever printed now appears in a facsimile edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary based on three decades of historical and botanical research.
Trade Review"The commentary, a tribute from twentieth-century botanists to a famous sixteenth-century predecessor, will be consulted with profit and pleasure by botanists and by historians of botany, natural history, and late humanist scholarship. . . . The book is beautifully produced."—
Journal of the History of BiologyTable of ContentsVolume I: List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Chronology; Abbreviations; 1. The herbal tradition before Fuchs; 2. The life of Leonhart Fuchs; 3. The genesis of Fuchs's Historia stirpium; 4. The woodblock figures in Fuchs's Historia stirpium; 5. the Vienna codex: Leonhart Fuchs's unpublished herb book; Appendix I. The dedicatory epistle; Appendix 2. Explanation of difficult terms; Appendix 3. Georg Hizler's oration on Leonhart Fuchs; Appendix 4. Manuscripts of Leonhart Fuchs, his correspondents, and his survivors; Appendix 5. Systematic summary of the plants figures in the Historia stirpium; Appendix 6. Sleected chapters translated from the Historia stirpium; Appendix 7. Chronological list of the published works of Leonhart Fuchs and cognate works. Volume 2: Notable commentaries on the history of plants.
