HISTORY OF BOTANY. 
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restorer of botany at the commencement of the sixteenth century. 
He published a colleffion of plants faithfully drawn after nature*. 
At the same time Euricius Cordus, a Hessian , professoi of the 
university of Marbourg , who died at Bremen in 1535 ’ signalized hint 
self by his botanical merits. Valerius Cordus, 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 Germans 
Jerome Bock, physician in the small town of Hornbach in the Dutchy 
of Wurtemberg’, and Leonard Fuchs, a Swabian professor at Ingolt- 
stadt, and afterwards at Tubingen , whom Charles V. Emperoi 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- 
lections of plants which they published h. d hus was botany restoied 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 tlw prince 
of modern natural history in general, Conrad Gesn er, 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 2532, in two volumes, folio, in German ; after- 
wards in Latin, under the title » Hcrbarum Hieal leones ad Nature Im.tat.onem Inmate .» 
Strasbourg, iS3 J >. three volumes, folio. 
, Von Fuchs DeHistoriaStirpium Commentary Tnsignes, Bassil, 15+2, in folio.— J erom 
Bock’s New Herbal, in German, printed at Strasbourg, 1339 ; and a second edition printed 
at the same place in 1346, Baron Haller gives the following chamfer to Bock: 
«, N emo tot plantos ante vidit et descripsit, nemo vires veriores addidit illo,” 
also. 
