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Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal

Hardcover with booklet9.1 x 14.6 in.10.51 lb892 pagine175
Disponibilità: Disponibile
With his 1543 herb manual, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, cactus, and tobacco.
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Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal

Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal

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Potent Plants

Mother Nature’s medicine cabinet

Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566,) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In 1543, Fuchs combined his masterful botanical knowledge with groundbreaking medical research in his New Herbal, a catalog of some 500 types of plants and their healing properties.

While a dependable scientific reference, The New Herbal won fame above all with the detail and quality of its illustrations. Alongside essays describing the plants’ features, origins, and medicinal powers, Fuchs presented each plant with meticulous woodcut illustrations, refining the ability for swift species identification and setting new standards for accuracy and quality in botanical publications. From the age of great exploration, The New Herbal also documented plant types from the recently discovered New World, offering the first visual record of tobacco, maize, kidney bean, and cactus.

This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored copy, which has miraculously survived four-and-a-half centuries in pristine condition. Fascinating for historians of medicine and art, gardeners, and anyone interested in herbal medicine, the volume features over 500 splendid illustrations, and an essay exploring the history of healing herbs.
L'autore

Werner Dressendörfer è storico della farmacia e bibliotecario accademico. Ha insegnato all’Università di Erlangen-Norimberga, dove è stato nominato professore onorario. Le sue particolari sfere di interesse riguardano la storia dell’erboristeria nella prima Età moderna, la storia culturale delle piante utili e medicinali, e il simbolismo delle piante nell’arte. Ha pubblicato molti titoli e contributi di storia della farmaceutica e della botanica. È autore dei volumi TASCHEN The Garden at Eichstätt, The Lilies, Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal of 1543, Pomona Britannica, The Temple of Flora e The Vegetable Garden.

Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal
Hardcover with booklet23 x 37 cm4.77 kg892 pagine

ISBN 978-3-8365-8765-5

Edizione: Francese

ISBN 978-3-8365-8766-2

Edizione: Inglese

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German book

Cat,4 aprile 2022
This is a stunning book and is beautifully printed. However, beware - this book is German, even if you buy the English version.