CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS B45 
growth, or the economic use of the plant. They had no general 
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the original Greek, from the press of Aldus Manutius at Venice, 
date ‘ : eer y 
There is little or nothing to record in the way of progress from 
the time of the classic writers to that of the botanical renaissance 
] 
Herbarium of Otto Brunfels, which was published at Strasburg 
(1530-86), marks a new era, the beginning of modern botany. 
Instead of copying old descriptions and figures, with additions 
wn the imaginatio 
nts, and had w 
examples of their kind. Working on similar lines, Hieronymus Bock 
published his Kreiitter Buch in 1539, and Leonhard Fuchs his Historia 
erms. 
_ The father of English botany was William Turner, Dean of 
Wells, whose Libellus de Re Herbaria novus appeared in 1538, while 
in 1551 was published the first part of his New Herbal, in English 
and with inset illustrations, 
his 
system was adopted by John Gerard, whose Herball or Generail 
Historie of Plants appeared in 1597. Gerard’s book was based 
on Dodoens’ Stirpium Historie Pemptades (Antwerp, 1583), with 
additional notes on British localities ; the blocks were those used 
