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Historia Plantarum


 

Historia Plantarum (Latin for History of Plants) is the name by which is known an atlas of botany written by Theophrastus between the third and the second century BC. This work was organised in ten books, and is an encyclopedia of the plant kingdom, in which a draft taxonomy is sketched, together with a basic classification of plant "elements".

External link

  • Historia Plantarum —Selected pages of a 17th century edition of the 1200 version (in Italian)