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English: Hand-coloured woodcut from Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) - "He nach volget das Puch der Natur" - Augsburg: H. Bamler, 1475 The scholar and cleric Konrad von Megenberg compiled his encyclopedic Book of Nature in the fourteenth century from a number of earlier authorities. The fifth chapter discusses 89 plant species arranged in no particular order. The woodcuts are the first printed depictions of plants presented for botanical rather than decorative purposes.
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Source http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html
Author Konrad von Megenberg (1309–1374)

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