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Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany

Agnes Arber (1879 - 1960)

Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to catalogue the uses of different kinds of plants. While Herbals often reflected pre-scientific and magical beliefs about the properties of plants, Arber's work reveals that they were also critical to the early development of botany and medicine as empirical sciences. A classic in the history of science. - Summary by Josh Leach

Genre(s): Early Modern, Life Sciences

Language: English

Keyword(s): magic (65), botany (41), History of Medicine (4), History of Science (4), herbals (1), early modern europe (1)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Josh Leach	00:09:36
Play 01	I: The Early History of Botany	Josh Leach	00:24:12
Play 02	II: The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century)	mokka	00:27:58
Play 03	III: The Early History of the Herbal in England	KevinS	00:23:53
Play 04	IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 1. The Herbal in Germany	mokka	00:23:49
Play 05	IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 2. The Herbal in the Low Countries	Shashank Jakhmola	00:15:59
Play 06	IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 3. The Herbal in Italy	Shashank Jakhmola	00:10:36
Play 07	IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 4. The Herbal in Switzerland	Shashank Jakhmola	00:13:11
Play 08	IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 5. The Herbal in France	Lynette Caulkins	00:03:28
Play 09	IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 6. The Herbal in England	mokka	00:31:36
Play 10	IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 7. The Revival of Aristotelian Botany	mokka	00:04:24
Play 11	V: The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description	Josh Leach	00:22:40
Play 12	VI: The Evolution of Plant Classification	KHand	00:27:56
Play 13	VII: The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration	KHand	00:50:11
Play 14	VIII: The Doctrine of Signatures and Astrological Botany	KHand	00:28:31
Play 15	IX: Conclusions	KHand	00:07:51

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