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History of Botany (73)

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1998The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.
1999Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany
2000Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.
2000Plants in archeology: Identification manual of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and Southern Mediterranean to c. 1500.
2001Botanophilia in eighteenth-century France: The spirit of the Enlightenment.
2004British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter.
2004Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.
2006Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550.
2008The history of natural history: An annotated bibliography. Second edition
2008Health and healing from the medieval garden. Edited by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide.
2009An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
2009Of books and botany in early modern England: Sixteenth-century plants and print culture.
2010Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to revolution.
2011Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
2013Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.
2014A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
2015Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.
2016A Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.
2017Flora unveiled: The discovery and denial of sex in plants.
2017The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy.
2017Das System der Natur. Die kollaborative Wissenskultur der Botanik im 18. Jahrhundert.
2020A companion to Byzantine science. Edited by Stavros Lazaris.
2021Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.