Ancient Botany (Sciences of Antiquity)

by Gavin Hardy (Author), Laurence Totelin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $217.29

  Includes illustrations of coins and pottery, and botanical images of medieval manuscripts such as De Materia Medica , as well as a bibliography. This book studies writers such as Menestor and Empedocles and gives an account of what was known or thought of about plants before the Lyceum of Aristotle expounds the writings of Theophrastus of Eresus.