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.)
Dioscorides
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Pedanius Dioscorides, "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De materia medica, a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and
Dioscorides receives a mandrake root, an illumination from the 6th century (c. 512) Greek Juliana Anicia Codex (detail)
Blackberry from the 6th-century Vienna Dioscurides manuscript
Cover of an early printed version of De materia medica, Lyon, 1554
The genus Dioscorea includes different species of yam.