. Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. Botany; Botany; Herbals. VII] Leonhard Fuchs 183 i0on?^auttm* remarks upon the illustrations, which may be translated as follows :— "As far as concerns the pictures themselves, each of which is positively delineated according to the features and likeness of the living plants, we have taken peculiar care that they should be most perfect, and, moreover, we have devoted the greatest diligence to secure that every plant should be de- picted with its own roots, stalks, leaves, flowers, seeds and fruits. Furth
. Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. Botany; Botany; Herbals. VII] Leonhard Fuchs 183 i0on?^auttm* remarks upon the illustrations, which may be translated as follows :— "As far as concerns the pictures themselves, each of which is positively delineated according to the features and likeness of the living plants, we have taken peculiar care that they should be most perfect, and, moreover, we have devoted the greatest diligence to secure that every plant should be de- picted with its own roots, stalks, leaves, flowers, seeds and fruits. Furthermore we have purposely and deliberately avoided the obliteration of the natural form of the plants by shadows, and other less necessary things, by which the delineators sometimes try to win artistic glory: and we have not allowed the craftsmen so to indulge their whims as to cause the drawing not to cor- respond accurately to the truth. Vitus Rudolphus Specklin,byfar the best engraver of Strasburg, has admirably copied the won- derful industry of the draughts- men, and has with such excellent craft expressed in his engraving the features of each drawing, that he seems to have contended with the draughtsman for glory and ; How dull and colourless the phrases of modern scientific writers appear, beside the hot- blooded, arrogant enthusiasm of the sixteenth century! Fuchs' wood - cuts were. Text-fig. 91. "Rautten" = 5<)/r)'- chium, Moonwort[Bock, Kreuter Buch, 1546].. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Arber, Agnes Robertson, 1879-1960. Cambridge, University press
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