Old D^tural History Books, 
In association with Pierre Pena [fl. i535-i6o5]5 he published, 
in London in 1570-71, a Stirpium adversaria nova^ in which a No. 30. 
rough classification of Plants into classes or groups is attempted. 
In 1576 his Plantaruniy sen Stirpium Historia appeared at 
Antwerp ; this was very fully illustrated, the printer, Plantin, 
having possessed himself of the blocks to works by Mattioli and 
Dodoens as well as to those edited by Lecluse. These figures 
were also issued apart from the text with an iiidex in seven 
languages, and in this form made a popular work of reference 
for years, that was quoted by Linnaeus. 
Jacques d’Alechamps [1513-1588], a French physician 
and botanist, whose Historia Plantarum^ published at Leyden 
in 1586-87, gave account of over 1,000 species. 
Jacob Theodor, of Berg-Zabern, in Alsace, wrote, after 
the manner of his time, under his Latin designation as Jacobus 
Theodorus Tabern^montanus [1520-1590], and became 
quoted under the last name.* He wrote a Neuw Kreuterbuch^ No. 29. 
published at Frankfort in 1588-91, and noted for its illustrations. 
These figures were also issued as a separate work, entitled Eicones 
Plantarum^ in 1590, and subsequently, 1597, Gerard’s 
Herbal. 
A man of a very different stamp to the preceding was 
Andreas C^salpinus [1519-1603], the celebrated Italian 
naturalist, who, besides being an eminent student of Aristotle 
(whose philosophy he explained and defended), was an original 
worker of note, with attainments that were considerably in 
advance of his times. He almost anticipated Harvey in the 
discovery of the circulation of the blood. In his De Plantis^ 
published in Florence in 1583, he put in practice the method 
proposed by Gesner of classification by the fructification, and 
the care and thoroughness of this work elicited high praise from 
Linnaeus, who styled him primus verus systematicus.” 
He also contributed to the study of mineralogy, instituting a 
class for the minerals which are soluble in oil, corresponding 
to the class Salts, which included all soluble in water. In the 
same work [De Metallicisj Rome, 1596), he also maintained 
that fossil shells had been left on the land by the retiring 
* There is, however, absolutely no justification for a modern citation 
of him as “ Tabernaemontan.” 
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