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''in general'': entire book has progressionist view of botany, botanical history; medieval period consistently seen as stupid, backwards; any thinker who doesn't attempt to identify plants within the "natural order of things" (as we've come to do through botany) is seen as not making any "progress" | |||
:"Theophrastus started with a concept of the plant as an animal with its feet in the air and its mouth in the ground. In some ways, he could make the analogy work: like animals, plants could be described in terms of their veins, nerves and flesh." (23) | :"Theophrastus started with a concept of the plant as an animal with its feet in the air and its mouth in the ground. In some ways, he could make the analogy work: like animals, plants could be described in terms of their veins, nerves and flesh." (23) | ||
''Apuleius'' herbal in Cotton Vitellius C III | |||
* mandrake description, pg. 118 of Pavord | |||
* again, Anglo-Saxon scribe is ridiculed by Pavord: "it's irritating, the blindness of these medieval scribes" (120) | |||
* ink used to illustrate the plants is eating at the vellum -- '''vegetable inks eating plant materials''' | |||
Revision as of 19:56, 12 August 2010
in general: entire book has progressionist view of botany, botanical history; medieval period consistently seen as stupid, backwards; any thinker who doesn't attempt to identify plants within the "natural order of things" (as we've come to do through botany) is seen as not making any "progress"
- "Theophrastus started with a concept of the plant as an animal with its feet in the air and its mouth in the ground. In some ways, he could make the analogy work: like animals, plants could be described in terms of their veins, nerves and flesh." (23)
Apuleius herbal in Cotton Vitellius C III
- mandrake description, pg. 118 of Pavord
- again, Anglo-Saxon scribe is ridiculed by Pavord: "it's irritating, the blindness of these medieval scribes" (120)
- ink used to illustrate the plants is eating at the vellum -- vegetable inks eating plant materials