Author: Leonhart Fuchs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804738033
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Werner Dressendörfer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836538022
Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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With his 1543 herb catalog, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This fresh reprint is based on Fuchs's personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, cactus, and tobacco.

Author: Leonhart Fuchs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804716314
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Author: Frederick Gustav Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804737579
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 898

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Author: WERNER. DRESSENDOERFER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836587662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), el padre de la botánica moderna, da nombre a una llamativa flor y a su color correspondiente, el fucsia. En 1543 combinó sus excepcionales conocimientos de botánica con revolucionarias investigaciones médicas en el The New Herbal, un catálogo de medio millar de plantas y sus propiedades curativas. Aunque se trataba de una obra de confianza y referencia científica, The New Herbal ganó en popularidad, sobre todo, por los detalles y la calidad de sus ilustraciones. Las descripciones de las características, el origen y las propiedades medicinales de las plantas se acompañaban de minuciosas ilustraciones grabadas en madera, lo que permitía identificar las especies y estableció nuevos estándares de precisión y calidad en el universo de las publicaciones de botánica. En la época de las grandes expediciones, The New Herbal también documentó especies del Nuevo Mundo recién descubiertas por los europeos e incluyó el primer registro visual de las plantas del tabaco, el maíz, la judía roja y el cactus. Esta reimpresión de TASCHEN se ha realizado a partir de la copia personal coloreada por el propio Fuchs, que ha sobrevivido milagrosamente a lo largo de cuatro siglos y medio en un estado impoluto. Esta obra, que fascinará a historiadores de la medicina y el arte, jardineros y aficionados a las plantas curativas, incluye más de 500 ilustraciones excepcionales, reproducciones facsímil de textos originales del autor y un artículo que narra la historia de dichas plantas.

Author: Agnes Robertson Arber
Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Botanical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Stuart Stirling
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750952849
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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The Inca civilization of Peru was one of the gratest of the ancient civilizations of the Americas. Famous for their massive temples and fortresses built from huge blocks of stone and decorated with sheets of pure gold, the Incas also developed a system of government, capable of holding a vast area of territory together, and an extensive system of roads, connecting administrative centres, which acted as a means of colonization. Their religion of human sacrifice, worshipping Inti, the Sun God, was forcibly imposed throughout the empire. The population in 1500 numbered between six and seven million, but in the 1530s the Spanish, led by conquistador Pizarro, arrived in Peru. In their search for gold they devastated the Inca culture, destroying its treasures, killing its leaders and bringing to an end the infrastructure of its empire. By the 1570s, native American control in Peru had been completely lost and the civilization was no more. With Pizarro came Mansio Serra de Leguizamon, who became the last of the Spanish conquistadors to die. This book tells his story. After crossing the Atlantic when still in his teens, he played a central part in the conquest of the Incas, survived imprisonment and torture, took an Inca princess as his lover, abandoned his wife for the gaming tables of Lima, and spent the rest of his life in Peru. He died at the age of 78, leaving a famous apology for the conquest in his will. This book takes this document as its starting point, weaving a tale of the vicious subjugation of the Inca civilization.

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Jean A. Givens
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351875566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Images in medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, pharmacy, and natural history often confound our expectations about the functions of medical and scientific illustrations. They do not look very much like the things they purport to portray; and their actual usefulness in everyday medical practice or teaching is not obvious. By looking at works as diverse as herbals, jewellery, surgery manuals, lay health guides, cinquecento paintings, manuscripts of Pliny's Natural History, and Leonardo's notebooks, Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550 addresses fundamental questions about the interplay of art and science from the thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth century: What counts as a medical illustration in the Middle Ages? What are the purposes and audiences of the illustrations in medieval medical, pharmaceutical, and natural history texts? How are images used to clarify, expand, authenticate, and replace these texts? How do images of natural objects, observed phenomena, and theoretical concepts amplify texts and convey complex cultural attitudes? What features lead us to regard some of these images as typically 'medieval' while other exactly contemporary images strike us as 'Renaissance' or 'early modern' in character? Art historians, medical historians, historians of science, and specialists in manuscripts and early printed books will welcome this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary examination of the role of visualization in early scientific inquiry.

Author: Rebecca Laroche
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754666783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The first study to analyze print vernacular herbals from the standpoint of gender, this book also recognizes the rhetorical agenda of female writers who claim herbal practice. As she examines women's herbal language across various genres and in both manuscript and print, Laroche also incorporates meticulous archival research which ultimately generates original findings to do with women's ownership of medical texts.