Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...and at 8 a.m. in winter, and should be closed at 4 p.m. The students were held responsible for any injury occurring either by loss or disfigurement of the books.J J. C. Sabatier op. at.--Kosegarten (Geschichte derUniversitat Greifswald, Greifswald 1857, ii, 232) gives a catalogue of the books which in 1482 were in the possession of the medical faculty of Griefswald. In the 16th century the practice was also commenced of providing the universities with botanical gardens. The republic of Venice set a good example, in this respect, to all other states by causing a botanical garden to be laid out at Padua in i545- Then arose those at Pisa (1547) and Bologna (1568) where afterwards A. CESalPINI "the greatest botanist of his century " taught and worked. In 1577 LeYdEN acquired a botanical garden; Montpellier in 1593. In the German academies the earliest were founded at Leipzig (1580), Breslau (1587), Basel (1588) and Heidel Kniei.K op. cit. i, 17. t Pbantl op. cit. i, 215. J Dubuuchet in the Gaz. hebri. iies scicr.c. med. de Montpellier 1887, No. I I, p. 124. Compare also the very detailed Rules for the Library ul the Ecole de Me'decine of Paris for the year 1395 in Sabatier op. cit. I Meyer op. at. iv, 256 et seq. Y berg (1593)-At first they only served to promote the study of medicinal plants. The teaching of botany was combined with demonstrations on the plants, a procedure which facilitated the comprehension of the lectures in an extraordinary degree. Moreover, herbaria or collections of dried plants, probably introduced since the middle of the 16th century, t were applied to the same purpose, as also were drawings of plants. Even in ancient times care was taken to embellish botanical works with drawings. Those of the..."
