These delicately detailed representations of plants by a founding figure of modern botany are given a new lease of life in the book Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal
THESE delicately detailed representations of medicinal plants are the work of Leonhart Fuchs, a 16th-century German physician and botanist commonly considered one of the founding figures of modern botany.by historian Werner Dressendörfer and published by Taschen. It is based on Fuchs’s original catalogue of about 500 herbal plants and their properties., released in 1543, was based on previous botanical knowledge and his own research.
It is widely recognised for the accuracy and high quality of Fuchs’s illustrations, a selection of which are shown here.Leonhart Fuchs, a group of vegetables high in antioxidants and other beneficial molecules. Other varieties are cultivated to produce crops including pumpkins and courgettes.Next is a pasque flower , which contains the medically active compound anemonin. Bottom right is mandrake , once used in Europe as a laxative, ointment and alleged aphrodisiac, among other applications.
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