HISTORY OF BOTANY. 63 



This fruit procured contentment. A pause ensued in the farther cul- 

 tivation of botany. The learned thought it was sufficient, if they knew 

 and called the plants by the names which Bauhin had given them. 

 The ravages of the thirty years war, the theatre of which was chiefly 

 in Germany, had no progressive influence on the arts and sciences of 

 peace, especially on botany. Among those men who thought freely of 

 botany, and consulted their own spirit of inquiry, there was one at this 

 period in Lower Saxony, of the name of Joachin Jungius. He 

 was born at Lubeck in 1586, first professor of Mathematics at Giesen 

 and Rostock, afterwards professor of Physic at Helmstaedt, and died as 

 Re6lor at Hamburgh, in 1657. His spirit accustomed to mathematical 

 accuracy, bestowed more attention on the internal stru£lure of plants, 

 he made more ingenious remarks in * his writings, and was the first 

 who had some of the fundamental ideas of the system, which was finally 

 introduced by Linn.«:us. 



But during the latter half of the last century, a new epoch com 

 menced in botany as well as in many other sciences. The former ac- 

 quired more enthusiastic lovers, even among those nations who till 

 then had hardly taken any notice of it. Tfius far its empire had 

 solely been extended to the produQions of Europe; but now the 

 first zealous beginning was made, to obtain knowledge from the other 

 parts of the world. The English, Dutch, and French, being the first 

 commercial nations, had the best opportunities, and took care to profit 

 by them. Rumphius, Herrman, Rheede, Kaempfer, Margraf, 

 Si-OANE, Pluckenet, Brown, Sherard, Catesby, Clayton, 



* Isagoge Phytoscopica, Haml\ 1678, quarto. — Farther, Doxoscopise Physics; Minores, 

 scu Isagoge Phjsica Doxoscopica, Hamb. 1662. 



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