Rembert Dodoens
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Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. The standard author abbreviation Dodoens is used
Engraving by Theodor de Bry, in Bibliotheca chalcographica (1669)
Title page of Part 6 of the Cruijdeboeck 1554
Title page of the Crvydt-Boeck (1618 ed.)
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
Rembert Dodoens
…It contained new families, enlarged the number of groups from 6 to 26 and included many new illustrations, both original and borrowed. It was used by John Gerard as the source for his widely used Herball (1597). Thomas Johnson, in his preface to his 1633 edition of Herball, explains the controversial use of…
Frontispiece of 1636 edition of Herball
Virginia Potato
The Goose or Barnakle tree, that bears geese