CONTENTS 



CHAP- PAGE 



I. The Early History of Botany 



1. Introductory . j 



2. Aristotelian Botany 2 



3. Medicinal Botany 6 



II. The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century) 



1. The Encyclopaedia of Bartholomasus Anglicus and 'The 



Book of Nature' 10 



2. The 'Herbarium' of Apuleius Platonicus . . . 11 



3. The Latin 'Herbarius' 16 



4. The German 'Herbarius' and related Works . . 18 



5. The 'Hortus Sanitatis' 25 



III. The Early History of the Herbal in England 



1. The 'Herbarium' of Apuleius Platonicus ... 35 



2. Banckes' Herbal 38 



3. 'The Greta Herball' 40 



IV. The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and 



Seventeenth Centuries 



1. The Herbal in Germany 47 



2. The Herbal in the Low Countries 70 



3. The Herbal in Italy 79 



4. The Herbal in Switzerland 90 



5. The Herbal in France 98 



6. The Herbal in England 100 



7. The Revival of AristoteUan Botany . . . . 116 



V. The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description . 119 



VI. The Evolution of Plant Classification .... 134 



VII. The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration 154 



VIII. The Doctrine of Signatures, and Astrological Botany 204 

 IX. Conclusions 221 



Appendix I 



A Chronological List of the Principal Herbals and Related 



Botanical Works published between 1470 and 1670 . 227 



Appendix II 



A List, in Alphabetical Order, of the Principal Critical and 

 Historical Works dealing with the Subjects discussed in 



this Book 241 



Index 247 



