1530 - Science

Science

Living Pictures of Herbs (Herbarum vivae eicones) by Mainz-born Swiss botanist-physician Otto Brunfels, 42, is published in the first of two volumes (the second will not appear until 1540) with detailed, accurate, and realistic drawings that help to advance botanical science away from folklore, although the collection of old and new commentaries which accompanies the illustration consists mostly of descriptions of the properties of various plants as handed down from medieval times (see Bock, 1539).