HIST-ORY OF BOTANY. 55 



restorer of botany at the commencement of the sixteenth century. 

 He pubhshed a coUeftion of plants faithfully drawn after nature*. 

 At the same time Euricius Cord us, a Hessian, professor of the 

 university of Marbourg, who died at Bremen in 1535, signalized him- 

 self by his botanical merits. Valerius Cord us, his son, who died on 

 his travels through Italy, was a conspicuous naturalist, and torn too 

 early from the bosom of science in the 29th year of his age. 



The footsteps of the latter were followed by two other German$y 

 Jerome Bock, physician in the small town of Hornhach in the Dutchy 

 of Wurtemberg ; and Leonard Fuchs, a Swabian professor at Ingolt^ 

 stadt, diXi^ afterwards at Tubingen^ whom Charles V. Emperor of Ger- 

 many, created a nobleman on account of his rare talents. The former 

 departed life in 1554, the latter in 1566, Both of them had made col- 

 leftions of plants which tiiey published t. Thus was botany restored by 

 the southern Germans in the first half of the sixteenth century. They 

 were, however, all excelled in point of copiousness of knowledge, in- 

 genuity of observations, and richness of materials, by a Swiss, their co- 

 temporary. This was the Polyhistor of his age, and especially the prince 

 of modern natural history in general, Con r ad Gesner, a name, whose 

 splendid celebrity has been propagated by many learned and merito- 

 rious descendants and successors down to this present day. Adversity 



* This work was printed at Strasbourg in 253,^, in two volumes, folio, in German; after- 

 wards in Latin, under the title " Herbarum Hieal Icones ad Naturs Imitationem Imitatae." 

 Strasbourg, 1532, three volumes, folio. 



f Von Fuchs DeHistoriaStirpium Commentarii Insignes, BazU, 1542, in-folio. — Jerom 

 Bock's New Herbal, in German, printed at Strasbourg, 1539 ; and a second edition printed 

 at the same place in 1546, folio. Baron Haller gives the following charai^er to Bock: 

 " Nemo tot plantos ante vidlt et descrlpsit, nemo vires veriores addidit illo." 



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