Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes

Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes
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Total Pages : 898
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ISBN-10 : 0804737576
ISBN-13 : 9780804737579
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes by : Frederick Gustav Meyer

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Leonhart Fuchs - The New Herbal of 1543

Leonhart Fuchs - The New Herbal of 1543
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Total Pages : 960
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ISBN-10 : 3836538024
ISBN-13 : 9783836538022
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Leonhart Fuchs - The New Herbal of 1543 by : Werner Dressendörfer

With his 1543 herb catalog, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This fresh reprint is based on Fuchs's personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, cactus, and tobacco.

The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs

The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs
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Total Pages : 896
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ISBN-10 : 0804716315
ISBN-13 : 9780804716314
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs by : Leonhart Fuchs

Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution

Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution
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Publisher : Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012347525
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Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution by : Agnes Robertson Arber

The Last Conquistador

The Last Conquistador
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Publisher : The History Press
Total Pages : 365
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ISBN-10 : 9780750952842
ISBN-13 : 0750952849
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Conquistador by : Stuart Stirling

The Inca civilization of Peru was one of the gratest of the ancient civilizations of the Americas. Famous for their massive temples and fortresses built from huge blocks of stone and decorated with sheets of pure gold, the Incas also developed a system of government, capable of holding a vast area of territory together, and an extensive system of roads, connecting administrative centres, which acted as a means of colonization. Their religion of human sacrifice, worshipping Inti, the Sun God, was forcibly imposed throughout the empire. The population in 1500 numbered between six and seven million, but in the 1530s the Spanish, led by conquistador Pizarro, arrived in Peru. In their search for gold they devastated the Inca culture, destroying its treasures, killing its leaders and bringing to an end the infrastructure of its empire. By the 1570s, native American control in Peru had been completely lost and the civilization was no more. With Pizarro came Mansio Serra de Leguizamon, who became the last of the Spanish conquistadors to die. This book tells his story. After crossing the Atlantic when still in his teens, he played a central part in the conquest of the Incas, survived imprisonment and torture, took an Inca princess as his lover, abandoned his wife for the gaming tables of Lima, and spent the rest of his life in Peru. He died at the age of 78, leaving a famous apology for the conquest in his will. This book takes this document as its starting point, weaving a tale of the vicious subjugation of the Inca civilization.

Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta

Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9781606066584
ISBN-13 : 1606066587
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta by : Lee Hendrix

Now back in print, “the ultimate book-lover’s gift book” (Los Angeles Times) In 1561–62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thirty years later, Ferdinand’s grandson, the Emperor Rudolf II, commissioned Europe’s last great manuscript illuminator, Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), to embellish the work. The resulting book is at once a treasury of extraordinary beauty and a landmark in the cultural debate between word and image. Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historical scripts for a work that summarized all that had been learned about writing to date—a testament to the universal power of the written word. Hoefnagel, desiring to prove the superiority of his art over Bocskay’s words, employed every resource of illusionism, color, and form to devise all manner of brilliant grotesques, from flowers, fruit, insects, and animals to monsters and masks. Unavailable for nearly a decade, this gorgeous volume features over 180 color illustrations, as well as scholarly commentary and biographies of both artists to inspire scholars, bibliophiles, graphic designers, typographers, and calligraphers.

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 540
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ISBN-10 : 9781409456667
ISBN-13 : 1409456668
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West by : Dr Anne Van Arsdall

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. Fittingly, the volume honors Professor John M. Riddle, one of today's most respected medieval historians, whose career has been devoted to decoding the complexities of early medicine and pharmacy. "Herbs" in the title generally connotes drugs in ancient and medieval times; the essays here discuss interesting aspects of the challenges scholars face as they translate and interpret texts in several older languages. Some of the healers in the volume are named, such as Philotas of Amphissa, Gariopontus, and Constantine the African; many are anonymous and known only from their treatises on drugs and/or medicine. The volume's scope demonstrates the breadth of current research being undertaken in the field, examining both practical medical arts and medical theory from the ancient world into early modern times. It also includes a paper about a cutting-edge Internet-based system for ongoing academic collaboration. The essays in this volume reveal insightful research approaches and highlight new discoveries that will be of interest to the international academic community of classicists, medievalists, and early-modernists because of the scarcity of publications objectively evaluating long-lived traditions that have their origin in the world of the ancient Mediterranean.

Contemporary Botanical Artists

Contemporary Botanical Artists
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Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 0297822705
ISBN-13 : 9780297822707
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Contemporary Botanical Artists by : Shirley Sherwood

Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9781317122531
ISBN-13 : 1317122534
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West by : Anne Van Arsdall

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. Fittingly, the volume honors Professor John M. Riddle, one of today's most respected medieval historians, whose career has been devoted to decoding the complexities of early medicine and pharmacy. "Herbs" in the title generally connotes drugs in ancient and medieval times; the essays here discuss interesting aspects of the challenges scholars face as they translate and interpret texts in several older languages. Some of the healers in the volume are named, such as Philotas of Amphissa, Gariopontus, and Constantine the African; many are anonymous and known only from their treatises on drugs and/or medicine. The volume's scope demonstrates the breadth of current research being undertaken in the field, examining both practical medical arts and medical theory from the ancient world into early modern times. It also includes a paper about a cutting-edge Internet-based system for ongoing academic collaboration. The essays in this volume reveal insightful research approaches and highlight new discoveries that will be of interest to the international academic community of classicists, medievalists, and early-modernists because of the scarcity of publications objectively evaluating long-lived traditions that have their origin in the world of the ancient Mediterranean.

Assembling the Tropics

Assembling the Tropics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781107196636
ISBN-13 : 1107196639
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Assembling the Tropics by : Hugh Cagle

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.