416 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
even these authors gave us nothing else but mere 
lists of names, which are of no use whatever. 
Soon after Curis several physicians, Mesue, 
Serapio, Razis, Avicenna and others appeared in 
Arabia. But they mention only the officinal plants 
of older writers. | 
A long pause now happened, during which science 
was, as it were, entirely asleep. ‘The few scattered 
writings on medicine and natural history were mere 
¢ompilations of old authors, decorated with the pe- 
dantic learning of monasteries. Thus botany was 
almost forgotten till in the 16th century a German, 
of the name of Brunfels, roused this science from 
its lethargy. 
CMS are the bs 
SECOND EPOCH. 
From BRunrFe.s til] CAESALPINUS $ 
From 1530 to 1583. 7 
In the last epoch, little or nothing was dene in 
botany during a space of some thousand years. 
With the catalogues of about 600 plants, a foun- 
dation was laid, but no prospect whatever of the 
structure to be erected upon this ‘oundation. 
This second period indeed presents us with more 
promising views. All! science begins to revive again, 
and monasteries are no longer the exclusive seat of 
human knowledge. Brunfels, Gessner, Fuchs, Do- 
donaeus, the ever memorable Clusius, and the great 
Bauhin opened the path, 
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