Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, credited to Agnes Arber, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany by Agnes Arber. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to catalogue the uses of different kinds of plants. While Herbals often reflected pre-scientific and magical beliefs about the properties of plants, Arber's work reveals that they were also critical to the early development of botany and medicine as empirical sciences. A classic in the history of science. - Summary by Josh Leach

Recording facts

• Recording title: Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
• Author credits: Agnes Arber
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 5:25:51

Catalogue topics

• magic
• botany
• History of Medicine
• History of Science
• herbals
• early modern europe

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 9:36
2. 01 - I: The Early History of Botany — 24:12
3. 02 - II: The Earliest Printed Herbals (Fifteenth Century) — 27:58
4. 03 - III: The Early History of the Herbal in England — 23:53
5. 04 - IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 1. The Herbal in Germany — 23:49
6. 05 - IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 2. The Herbal in the Low Countries — 15:59
7. 06 - IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 3. The Herbal in Italy — 10:36
8. 07 - IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 4. The Herbal in Switzerland — 13:11
9. 08 - IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 5. The Herbal in France — 3:28
10. 09 - IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 6. The Herbal in England — 31:36
11. 10 - IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part 7. The Revival of Aristotelian Botany — 4:24
12. 11 - V: The Evolution of the Art of Plant Description — 22:40
13. 12 - VI: The Evolution of Plant Classification — 27:56
14. 13 - VII: The Evolution of the Art of Botanical Illustration — 50:11
15. 14 - VIII: The Doctrine of Signatures and Astrological Botany — 28:31
16. 15 - IX: Conclusions — 7:51

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