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Herbal

A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them. A herbal may also classify the plants it describes, may give recipes for herbal extracts, tinctures, or potions, and sometimes include…

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related to Papyrus Ebers · 35
Herbal → Alexandrian School, Andreas, Appolonius Mys, Aristotle’s, Based, BC, BCE, Carystus, Causes, De Causis Plantarum, Diocles, Egypt, Egyptian Papyrus Ebers, Enquiry, Greek, Greeks, Herophilus, Hippocrates, Hippocratic, Historia Plantarum
related to The Middle Ages and Arab World · 31
Herbal → Arab, Arabs, Avicenna, Avicenna's Canon, Babylonians, Baghdad, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Cairo, Damascus, During, East, European Middle Ages, Greek, Greeks, Ibn Sina, In, Indians, Islamic, Many
related to Fifteenth-century incunabula · 25
Herbal → Apuleius Platonicus, Assyrian, Bartholomew Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, De Simplicibus, Dioscorides De Materia Medica, Franciscan, German, German Herbarius, Germany, Grabadin, Herbarium, Important, Italy, Latin Herbarius, Liber Medicinarum Particularum, Macer’s De Virtutibus Herbarum, Mainz, Mesue, Ortus Sanitatis
related to Shen Nung Pen Ts’ao ching of China · 25
Herbal → BCE, Bencao Fahui, Bencao Gangmu, Cai Xiang, CE, China, Chinese, Emperor Shennong, European, Great Herbal, Han Yanzhi, High, In, It, Jiuhuang Bencao, Legend, Li Shizhen, Ming, Other, Shennong Bencao Jing
related to Germany – Bock, Brunfels and Fuchs · 24
Herbal → Another, Bingen, Bock, Brunfels, Causae, Curae, De Historia Stirpium, Flora, Fuchs, German, Germany, Hans Weiditz, Herbarum Vivae Eicones, Hieronymus Bock, Hildegard, In, Leonhart Fuchs, Liber, New Kreuterbuch, Otto Brunfels
related to Western Europe and the Renaissance · 24
Herbal → Arrangement, By, Cruydboeck, Dodoens, England, Europe, German, Germany, Gothic, Hieronymus Tragus, Hortus Sanitatis, Jacob Meyderbach, John Gerard's Herball, Kreuterbuch, Latin Herbarius, Mainz, New Herball, Other, Perhaps, Peter Schoeffer
related to Anglo-Saxon herbals · 22
Herbal → Anglo-Saxon, Another, Bald, Book, British Library, Buch, CE, Cild, England, Greek, King Alfred, Konrad, Lacnunga, Latin Herbarius Apulei Platonici, Leechbook, Megenberg, Nature, Our, Saxon, The
related to history · 22
Herbal → Another Latin, Apuleius, Before, Books, CE, De Materia Medica, De Simplicibus, Early, Elder's, Galen's, Greek, In, It, Latin, Like, Middle Ages, Most, Much, Natural History, Pliny
related to Low Countries – Dodoens, Lobel, Clusius · 22
Herbal → Belgian, Bock, Carolus Clusius, Christopher Plantin, Clusius's, Cruydeboeck, Dodoens, Dutch, German, Greco-Roman, Hungarian, Kreuterbuch, Lobel, Matthias, Pemptades, Rariorum Plantarum Historia, Rembert Dodoens, Spanish, Stirpium Adversaria Nova, The Flemish
related to Albertus Magnus – De Vegetabilibus · 21
Herbal → AD, Albertus Magnus, Arabic, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, De Vegetabilibus, East-West, English Franciscan, Greek, Herbis, In, It, Matthaeus Platearius, Other, Padua, Roman, Salerno Spain, St Thomas Aquinas, Suabian, Tractatus

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herbals plants first de medicinal plant botanical printed medicine english published also new illustrations century illustrated modern known ce works

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Herbalis abook containing the names and descriptions of plants0.90text
Cruydboeck of Dodoensinstance ofArrangement of plants in later herbals0.80text
John Gerard's Herball of 1597 became more related to their physical similaritiesinstance ofArrangement of plants in later herbals0.80text
this heralded the beginnings of scientific classificationinstance ofArrangement of plants in later herbals0.80text
John Rayinstance ofTurner described over 200 species native to England. and his work had a strong influence on later eminent botanists0.80text
Jean Bauhin.John Gerardinstance ofTurner described over 200 species native to England. and his work had a strong influence on later eminent botanists0.80text
Herbalrelated to Albertus Magnus – De VegetabilibusIn0.60section
Herbalrelated to Albertus Magnus – De VegetabilibusAlbertus Magnus0.60section
Herbalrelated to Albertus Magnus – De VegetabilibusSuabian0.60section
Herbalrelated to Albertus Magnus – De VegetabilibusUniversity0.60section
Herbalrelated to Albertus Magnus – De VegetabilibusPadua0.60section
Herbalrelated to Albertus Magnus – De VegetabilibusSt Thomas Aquinas0.60section

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