9. Bacon, FRANCIS. 
Sylva sylvarum: or A naturall historic in ten centuries. 1627, 
(Includes: New Atlantis). First edition. To the first of these 
works Bacon himself referred as ‘An undigested heap of par- 
ticulars ’ suggesting problems for investigation. The second, 
work of imagination, the author had represented as having already 
achieved some of the benefits he wished for mankind. 
10. BAUHIN, CASPAR. 
Pinax theatrit botanict . . . 1671. 
Includes his Prodromos theatri botanict . . . 1671. 
“The fact of natural affinity had been recognized in the Pinay 
of Caspar Bauhin as the foundation of a natural system . . . The 
distinction between species and genus is fully carried out; every 
plant has with him a generic and a specific name, and this binary 
nomenclature... is almost. perfectly maintained by Bauhin, 
especially in the Pinar,” though a third and fourth word is often 
added to the specific name. He deseribed about 6,000 species 
(vs. 600 by Dioscorides ). 
11. Beton [pu Mans] P[1eERRE] 
De arboribus, coniferis, resiniferis, aliis quoque nonnullis sempi- 
terna fronde virentibus, cum carundem iconibus ad vivuim ex pres- 
Cy een bool F 
First edition. 
The earliest work on conifers. 
In his book, Le Remonstrance ete., Paris, 1558, Belon intro- 
duced, and for the first time systematically employed, binomial 
nomenclature for plants, 180 vears before Linne. 
12. Bock, HitRoNYMUS. 
Kreuter Buch darinn underscheidt, Namen unnd Witrckung der 
Kreutter, Stauden, Hecken unnd Beumen .. . 1551 
Jerome Bock (Tragus) was a contemporary of Brunfels. 
ecology forms an item and a very distinct one in the account 
almost every wild plant which he describes.” He is credited 
with being the first to describe the stamen as made up of two dis- 
tinct parts, and the first of the early German botanists to actually 
describe plants instead of merely repeating the descriptions of 
classic authors. 
