HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES 4.17 
Otto Brunfels, son of a cooper, was born at Maynz, 
at the end of the 15th century. He was first a Car- 
thusian friar, became soon after cantor, (precentor), 
in Strasburg. After he had lived there about nine 
years, he applied with so much applatise to the prac- 
tice of medicine, that he got an invitation to Bern, 
where he practised about a year and a haif with ge- 
neral approbation, but on the 23d of November, 
1534, he died there, lamented by the whole city. 
In his work* he has given the first cuts, and he was 
also the first botanist in Germany. The drawings 
are not very good, and do not in the least corres 
pond with his own descriptions. 
Hieronymus Bock was born at Peideshaeh in 
Zweybruecken, 1498, He lived there for some years; 
but went afterwards to Hornbach, where he became 
clergyman and physician at the same time. He died 
in the 56th year of his age, the 21st of June, 1554. 
He changed his name, according to the fashion of 
his age, to the Greek name Tragus. In three books 
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* Otto Brunfels Historia Plantarum Argentorati; Tom. f. 
and II. 1530;-Tom. III. 1536. New editions appeared in 
1537 and 1539. ‘Ihe same work was translated into German, 
and published at Strasburg, 1532, in folio. ‘Thé second part 
appeared 1537. We have, besides, an edition of it, pub- 
lished at Frankfort, 1546, in fol.; aid one int Strasburg, 1543, 
in gto. The works of Brunfels are very scarce. He has writ~ 
ten besides something on medicine, and on the plants of 
Dioscoridés. 
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