6 Old German Old Botany Books
from 16th century
on 3 DVD's

These 3 data DVD's contain 6 Old German Old Botany Books from 16th century in facsimiles as HIGH RESOLUTION images, meaning that in most cases every page of the real book corresponds to an image. The books have an image resolution of approx. 1900x2400 and some books even higher. They are written in German and have a total of over 3700 pages, containing many wonderful and interesting botany plates.

Hieronymus Bock (Latinised Tragus) (1498 – February 21, 1554) was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who began the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by arranging plants by their relation or resemblance.

Eucharius Rösslin (Roslin, Rößlin), sometimes known as Eucharius Rhodion, (c. 1470 – 1526) was a German physician who authored a book about childbirth called Der Rosengarten ("The Rose Garden") in 1513, which became a standard medical text for midwives.

Otto Brunfels (also known as Brunsfels or Braunfels) (believed to be born in 1488 – November 23, 1534) was a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".

Pietro Andrea Mattioli was a renowned botanist and physician, and this is attested to by his published works. As Mattioli held a post in the Imperial Court as physician to Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and the Emperor Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, this granted him immense influence. But some of his practice included the frequent testing of the effects of poisonous plants on prisoners in order to popularize his works--no doubt a common practice at the time.[4] And Mattioli did not tolerate either rivals nor corrections. The naturalists and physicians who dared to disagree or correct him did so at their peril.

Jacobus Theodorus (Jakob Dietrich), called Tabernaemontanus (1525 – August 1590) was a physician and an early botanist and herbalist, the "father of "German botany" whose illustrated Neuwe Kreuterbuch (1588) or Eicones Plantarum (Frankfurt, 1590) was the result of a lifetime's botanizing and medical practice. It provided unacknowledged material for John Gerard's better-known Herball (London, 1597) and was reprinted in Germany throughout the 17th century. His Latinized name represented a translation of his native town, Bergzabern (literally ‘mountain taverne’) in the Palatinate. Tabernaemontanus began as a student of the pioneer of Renaissance botany, Hieronymus Bock.

Leonhart Fuchs (1501 – 10 May 1566), sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs, was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, i.e. a Herbal Book. It was first published in 1542 in Latin. It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from woodcuts. The drawings are the book's most notable advance on its predecessors. Although drawings were in use beforehand in other Herbal books, Fuchs' Herbal book proved and emphasized high-quality drawings as the most telling way to specify what a plant name stands for. The botanical genus Fuchsia is named in his honour, and consequently the colour fuchsia.

Below you will see just a few sample pages (sizes reduced) from these books and also the list with the books which you will find on these 3 data DVD's.