CONTENTS. 
XXIX 
SECTION IV. 
A SHORT HISTORY OF BOTANY. 
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Among the Greeks — . Theophrastus , the father of Botany — Hippocrates — 
Dloscorides — Among the Romans — Pliny — .View of the progress of Bo- 
tany — Obstacles — Want of systematical division — Fate of this science in the 
middle age — Its regeneration in the fifteenth century by the Germans Brun- 
j e l s jy oc k Fuchs — Sixteenth Century — Conrad Gesner, the father of mo- 
dern Botany and natural History— His singular destiny— Cultivation of the 
botanical gardens — Botanical excursions — The Germans arc the first that 
published Flora, or Collections of the Plants of. certain countries — Clusius, 
the greatest botanical Tourist in the xvith century — Affluence of botanical 
materials — Want of a system — Casalpini, an Italian, forms one Caspar 
Bauhin , a Swiss, the first universal writer on Botany, in the xviith cen- 
tury Professor Jungius — Various travels tending to promote Natural His- 
tory Morison and Ray , Englilhmen, the first authors of modern systems— 
Rivinles and others — 7 ournefort, the modern legiflator in Botany — Accounts 
respecting him and his system — Vaillant his pupil, makes ingenious observa- 
tions on the genera or sexes of plants. 49 
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Llnnaus goes to Holland— His residence at Hamburgh— Janiscb, Kohl, 
Spreckelsen — The seven-headed serpent of the latter — Llnnaus proves it 
to be no phenomenon — Takes his degrees as doctor of medicine at Har- 
derwyk — His dissertation of inauguration — Goes to Leyden His ac- 
quaintance with Van Royen, Pan Szvieten , Lieberkuhn and Gronov— Publishes 
his Systema Nature— Waits on Boerhaave— Biographical Strictures— 
Anecdotes — Llnnaus resolves to return to Sweden by Amster am 
Gets acquainted there with J . Burmann—KmcAote—Lsnnaus stays 
with Burmann — Works in his botanical Library— Is recommended by 
Boerbaavet o Clifford, Burgomafter of Amsterdam— Is charged to arrange the 
botanical warden af Hartecamp— Anecdotes— Accepts of the offer— His 
happy condition-Meets unexpectedly with his friend Artedi— Tragical exit 
of the latter — Llnnaus rescues his fame from oblivion-His residence at 
Hartecamp-His works in the beginning of 1736-Commencement of the 
