TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION: NATURAL HISTORY DOWN TO 



THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY .... 1 



SECTION I. THE NEW BIOLOGY 



The Revival of Botany 12 



Otto Brunfels 17 



HiERONYMUS Bock (Tragus) 20 



Leonhard Fuchs 24 



Valerius Cordus 28 



Conrad Gesner 28 



Matthias de L'Obel 32 



Andrea Cesalpini (or Cesalpino) .... 36 



Pierre Belon 40 



Guillaume Rondelet 45 



The Encyclopaedic Naturalists of the Renaissance 47 



SECTION II. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DISTANT 

 LANDS (EARLY TIMES TO THE END OF THE 

 SIXTEENTH CENTURY) 61 



