About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Pliny the Elder, John Ray, Prospero Alpini, Theophrastus, Hans Sloane, Nicholas Culpeper, Pierre Magnol, Andrea Cesalpino, Frederik Ruysch, William Turner, Carolus Clusius, Nehemiah Grew, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Leonhart Fuchs, Rembert Dodoens, Pedanius Dioscorides, Robert Morison, Charles Plumier, Edward Lhuyd, Henry Lyte, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Jean de Thevenot, Otto Brunfels, Kaibara Ekken, John Tradescant the Younger, Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, Basilius Besler, Georg Joseph Kamel, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Leonhard Rauwolf, John Tradescant the elder, Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau, Hadrianus Junius, Hieronymus Bock, Gaspard Bauhin, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Caspar Commelijn, Sebastien Vaillant, Jan Commelin, Johann Christian Buxbaum, Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, Luca Ghini, Johann Bauhin, Nikolaus Ager. Excerpt: Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD - August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions.Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August...
