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was Lord Zouch, wnose Gardens at Hackney he super- 

 intended, and whom he accompanied in 1598 when Ambas- 

 sador to Copenhagen. James I. made him Royal Botanist. 

 Died 1616, aged 78, at Highgate (see Meyer, iv., and Rd. 

 Pulteney's Sketches of History of Botany). Works : 



1. Stirpium Adversaria nova, in collaboration with Petrus 

 Pena, Lond. 1570, 4to, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth ; 

 other editions 1571 and 1572; then enlarged at Antwerp, 

 Christ. Plantin, 1576, folio ; 6 editions at Leyden, Frankfurt 

 and London before 165 1. 



2. Dilucidae Simplicium Medicamentorum Explicationes 

 et Stirpium, &c. Lond. 1605. Fol. 



3. Plantarum Sex Stirpium Historia. Antwerp, Ch. 

 Plantin, 1576. Fol. 



4. Kruydtboeck. Antwerp, Plantin, 1581. Fol. Parti., 

 1619, Woodcuts. Part II. 



5. Stirpium Illustrationes (left unfinished by Lobel. 

 Parkinson used part of it, without permission). Edited by 

 Wm. How, London, 1655. 4to. 



144: Maimonides {Moses Ben Maimon Ben Joseph), b 

 Cordova, c. 1131-9. Arab and Jewish Physician and Philo- 

 sopher, Theologian and Expounder of Law. In 15th cent, 

 his books, translated from Arab, and Hebrew, widely 

 read in Latin: "Guide of Erring," Compendium of Logic; 

 Commenty. on Mishna, and Exposn. of 613 Laws of Moses. 

 Translated Avicenna's Canon into Hebrew ; wrote in prose 

 Hebrew Mishne Thora, or lad Chasaka = The Work a 

 complete system in 982 chapters of the Talmudic Judaism, 

 d. 1201-9, buried in Palestine. 



MaTTIOLI, Pierandre {Petrus Andreas Matthiolus), b. at 

 Siena 1501. Physician at Court of Ferdinand I. His Herbal 

 (in interests of Medicine rather than Botany) is a Com- 



