Guide to an Exhibition of 
science by Otto Brunfels [1488-1534], whose well illustrated 
No. 17. Herbarium was printed at Strasburg in 1530-1536. 
Among his botanical contemporaries and successors were :— 
Euricius Cordus [i.e.^ Heinrich Eberwein, 1486-1535], 
who wrote a Botanologicon^ published at Cologne in 1534 ; and 
his son Valerius [1515-1544], who annotated Dioscorides, 
and also wrote on Metals. 
Johannes Ruellius [c. 1474 - 1537] whose De natura 
Stirpium appeared at Paris in 1536. 
Hieronymus Bock [1498-1554], better known under the 
Latin version of his name as Tragus, who was author of a 
celebrated Kreutter Buck first issued in 1539. 
No. 21. Leonhard Fuchs [1501-1566], whose Hhtoria Stirpium 
was printed at Basle in 1542, and is specially worthy of note on 
account of the excellence of its illustrations. 
In England there lived at this time “The Father of English 
Botany,” William Turner [c. 1515-1568], Dean of Wells, 
No. 18. whose Libellus de Re Herbaria novus^ printed at London in 1538) 
is now a very scarce work. His Names of Herbes followed in 
1548, and was very largely an extension in English of the 
Libellus. To this in 1551 succeeded the first part of his New 
No. 20. Herbal^ a beautifully printed work with good illustrations. 
MINERALOGY and Metallurgy were next brought into 
more scientific order by Georgius Agricola, whose real name 
was Bauer [1494-1555], the “Father of Metallurgy.” Agri¬ 
cola was the first to make proper use of the external characters 
in the distinction and description of Minerals. He introduced 
the term Sued Concreti for those minerals which he regarded as 
the results of coagulation, and which he was unable to class with 
Earths, Stones or Metals. His De ortu ^ causis subterraneorum 
and De natura Fossilium appeared together in 1546 ; these were 
No. 25. followed in 1556 by his De Re Metallica. 
THE restoration of Zoology to scientific rank was the work 
of Edward Wotton [1492-1555], who was the first English 
physician to make a systematic study of Natural History. In 
No. 26. his De differentiis Animalium^ printed at Paris in 1552, he 
discarded the legendary animals and reverted to the sounder 
methods of Aristotle. 
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