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The Development of botanical illustration was deeply indebted to the path breaking work of Albrecht Durer, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer who had set new standards in the naturalistic representation of animals and plants. It was a student of Durer, Hans Weiditz en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Weiditz who provided the illustrations for the Herbarum vivae icones (Living Portraits of Plants) of Otto Brunfels, published in 1530. As the title suggests, the text, a pastiche of the Greek physician Dioscorides, was less important than the illustrations, 260 superbly executed woodcuts. Like his medieval forebears, Brunefels excluded any plants that had no obvious medical applicability. But his work was an important first step towards the enumeration and ordering of Europe’s plant life. It would be continued by a host of talented naturalists, among them Leohard Fuchs, the author of ‘De historia stirpium’ (History of Plants 1542). This contained 500 iullustrations of plants, arranged in alphabetical order. A version of these illustrations was later employed by William Turner for his ‘English Herbal’. Turner, realising that a major source of pharmacological confusion was the difficulty in recognizing plants variously described in different languages, concentrated on matching plants with their names in five languages: Greek, Latin, English, German and French. This became a standard feature of many of these encyclopaedic works. ~ Page 292
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