Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
Agnes Arber
16 chapters · 5 h 26 min · English
Read by Josh Leach, mokka, KevinS, Shashank Jakhmola, Lynette Caulkins, KHand
Early Modern · Life Sciences
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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
Chapters
1 Preface 10 min 2 I: The Early History of Botany 24 min 3 II: The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century) 28 min 4 III: The Early History of the Herbal in England 24 min 5 IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 1. The Herbal in Germany 24 min 6 IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 2. The Herbal in the Low Countries 16 min 7 IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 3. The Herbal in Italy 11 min 8 IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 4. The Herbal in Switzerland 13 min 9 IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 5. The Herbal in France 3 min 10 IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 6. The Herbal in England 32 min 11 IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 7. The Revival of Aristotelian Botany 4 min 12 V: The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description 23 min 13 VI: The Evolution of Plant Classification 28 min 14 VII: The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration 50 min 15 VIII: The Doctrine of Signatures and Astrological Botany 29 min 16 IX: Conclusions 8 min
