Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal
With his 1543 herb manual, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, cactus, and tobacco.
Potent Plants
Mother Nature’s medicine cabinet
Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566,) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In 1543, Fuchs combined his masterful botanical knowledge with groundbreaking medical research in his New Herbal, a catalog of some 500 types of plants and their healing properties.
While a dependable scientific reference, The New Herbal won fame above all with the detail and quality of its illustrations. Alongside essays describing the plants’ features, origins, and medicinal powers, Fuchs presented each plant with meticulous woodcut illustrations, refining the ability for swift species identification and setting new standards for accuracy and quality in botanical publications. From the age of great exploration, The New Herbal also documented plant types from the recently discovered New World, offering the first visual record of tobacco, maize, kidney bean, and cactus.
This edition is based on Fuchs’s personal, hand-colored copy, which has
miraculously survived four-and-a-half centuries in pristine condition. Fascinating
for historians of medicine and art, gardeners, and anyone interested in herbal medicine, the volume features over 500 splendid illustrations, and an essay exploring the history of healing herbs.
The author
Werner Dressendörfer is a pharmaceutical historian, academic librarian, and former honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
His particular spheres of interest are the history of the Early Modern herbal, the cultural history of useful and medicinal plants, and plant symbolism in art. He has published extensively on pharmaceutical and botanical history and is the author of TASCHEN’s The Garden at Eichstätt, The Lilies, Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal of 1543, Pomona Britannica, The Temple of Flora, and The Vegetable Garden.
Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal
Werner Dressendörfer
Hardcover with booklet, 23 x 37 cm, 4.77 kg, 892 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-8766-2
Edition: English
莱昂哈特·福克斯：新草药
植物学先驱莱昂哈特·福克斯（Leonhart Fuchs）凭借其1543年的草药手册，创造了文艺复兴时期植物学和出版业的杰作。该版本基于福克斯的个人手绘原作，共有500多幅插图，是玉米、仙人掌和烟草等新世界植物类型的首次视觉记录。植物的强大力量
大自然母亲的药箱
莱昂哈特·福克斯（Leonhart Fuchs，1501-1566年）是现代植物学的奠基人，至今仍以鲜艳的花朵和相应的紫红色为荣。1543年，富克斯将其精湛的植物学知识与开创性的医学研究结合起来，创作了《新草药》，其中收录了约500种植物及其治疗特性的目录。
虽然是一本可靠的科学参考书，但《新草药》首先以其插图的细节和质量赢得了声誉。除了描述植物特征、起源和药用价值的文章外，福克斯还为每种植物提供了细致的木刻插图，提高了快速识别物种的能力，并为植物学出版物的准确性和质量设定了新标准。在伟大的探索时代，《新草药》还记录了最近发现的新世界的植物类型，首次提供了烟草、玉米、芸豆和仙人掌的视觉记录。
该版本基于福克斯的个人手绘原作，奇迹般地以原始状态存活了四个半世纪。这本书对医学和艺术史学家、园艺家以及任何对草药感兴趣的人都很有吸引力，书中有500多幅精彩的插图，摘录了福克斯的原始文本，还有一篇探索治疗草药历史的文章。
作者简介
维尔纳·德雷森多弗（Werner Dressendörfer）是一位制药历史学家、学术图书馆员，也是埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学的前荣誉教授。他喜欢钻研早期现代草药的历史、实用和药用植物的文化历史，以及艺术中的植物象征主义。他在制药和植物学历史方面发表了大量的文章，包括在TASCHEN出版的《艾希斯泰特的花园》、《百合花》、《莱昂哈特·福克斯：1543年的新草药》、《大英百科全书》、《花之神殿》和《菜园》。
莱昂哈特·福克斯：新草药
维尔纳·德雷森多弗
精装带小册子，23 x 37 cm，4.77 kg，892页
ISBN 978-3-8365-8766-2
语言版本：英语
