Historia Plantarum

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Historia Plantarum (Latin for history of Plants) is the name by which is commonly known Theophrastus' atlas of botany, written between the third and the second century BC.

This work was organised in ten books, and is a sort of encyclopedia of the green kingdom, in which a draft of taxonomy is sketched, together with an elementary classification of plants' elements.

The work was a reference point in botany for many centuries, and was developed around 1200 by Giovanni Bodeo da Stapelio, who added a commentarius and drawings.

External link

• Some drawings and the front pages of the 1200 edition (in Italian)

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Historia Plantarum" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Plantarum August 21, 2003