. Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. Botany; Botany; Herbals. VI] Theophrasttis and Pliny 137 Pliny was not, strictly speaking, a medical botanist, but at the same time he may be mentioned in this connection, since his interest in plants was essentially utilitarian. Like Theophrastus, he begins his account of plants with the trees, but his reason for so doing is profoundly different from that of the Greek writer, and illustrates the divergence between what we may call the anthropocentric and the. Text-fig. 64. "Buglossa" [Ortus Sanitat
. Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. Botany; Botany; Herbals. VI] Theophrasttis and Pliny 137 Pliny was not, strictly speaking, a medical botanist, but at the same time he may be mentioned in this connection, since his interest in plants was essentially utilitarian. Like Theophrastus, he begins his account of plants with the trees, but his reason for so doing is profoundly different from that of the Greek writer, and illustrates the divergence between what we may call the anthropocentric and the. Text-fig. 64. "Buglossa" [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491]. scientific outlook upon the plant world. Theophrastus placed trees at the head of the vegetable kingdom, because he considered their organisation the highest, and most completely expressive of plant nature; Pliny, on the other hand, began with trees because of their great value and. 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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