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Academic & Professional Books  Botany  Plants & Botany: General

Ancient Botany

By: F Gavin Hardy(Author), Laurence Totelin(Author)
238 pages, 15 b/w illustrations, 4 b/w maps
Publisher: Routledge
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Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin have brought together their botanical and historical knowledge to produce this unique overview of ancient botany. It examines all the founding texts of botanical science, such as Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants, Dioscorides' Materia Medica, Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Nicolaus of Damascus' On Plants, and Galen's On Simple Remedies, but also includes lesser known texts ranging from the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, as well as some material evidence. The authors adopt a thematic approach rather than a chronological one, considering important issues such as the definition of a plant, nomenclature, classifications, physiology, the link between plants and their environment, and the numerous usages of plants in the ancient world. Ancient Botany also takes care to place ancient botany in its historical, social and economic context. The authors have explained all technical botanical terms and ancient history notions, and as a result, Ancient Botany will appeal to historians of ancient science, medicine and technology; classicists; and botanists interested in the history of their discipline.

Contents

1. Early References to Plants in Greek Literature
2. The Botanical Works of Theophrastus of Eresus
3. Cryptogamic Plants in Ancient Botany
4. The Study of Plants after Theophrastus up to the Medical Botany of Dioscorides and Galen
5. The Transmission of Ancient Botany to the Renaissance

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Biography

F.G. Hardy (or Gavin Hardy) is a Tutor in the Office of Lifelong Learning at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Laurence Totelin is Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University, UK.

By: F Gavin Hardy(Author), Laurence Totelin(Author)
238 pages, 15 b/w illustrations, 4 b/w maps
Publisher: Routledge
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