John Goodyer
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John Goodyer was a botanist who lived in south-east Hampshire, England, all his life. He amassed a large collection of botanical texts which were bequeathed to Magdalen College, Oxford, and translated
SE Hampshire, R Gunther 1922
St Mary's Church, Buriton
Page from Goodyer's Dioscorides
Figure 1. Window in St Mary's Buriton
John Gerard
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John Gerard was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, became a popular
John Goodyer
…Rev. Edmund Yalden. One of his most important contributions was his work with botanist Thomas Johnson in producing a revised and corrected edition of John Gerard's Herbal (1597), arguably the greatest English herbal of its time, in 1633. Johnson called him his "onely assistant". He also translated a Latin version…
Frontispiece of 1636 edition of Herball
Virginia Potato
The Goose or Barnakle tree, that bears geese