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Leonhard Rauwolf: Sixteenth-Century Physician, Botanist and Traveler
Leonhard Rauwolf SixteenthCentury Physician Botanist and Traveler
Author: Karl H. Dannenfeldt
Leonhard Rauwolf, a Bavarian physician after whom the genus of tropical plants Rauwolfia is named, was the first modern botanist to collect and describe the flora of the Near East. His own account of his travels in the Levant from 1573 to 1575, published in 1582, provides a fascinating illustration of the difficulties and dangers of early scien...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780735102453
ISBN-10: 0735102457
Publication Date: 7/2001
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Publisher: Replica Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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