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* Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( A History of Rare Plants ) is a book published by John Martyn in 1728 – 1737.
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Historia and Plantarum
His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy.
His student Theophrastus ( Greece, 370-285 BC ) carried on this tradition, and wrote a classification of 480 plants called Historia Plantarum.
In 1578 the manuscript, entitled Nova Plantarum, Animalium et Mineralium Mexicanorum Historia, was sent back to the Escorial in Madrid ; they were not translated into Latin by Francisco Ximenes until 1615.
Historia Plantarum is Latin and literally means History of Plants, although better translations would be " on plants " or " treatise on plants ".
* Historia Plantarum ( also called Enquiry into Plants / Inquiry into Plants ) is the name by which is known an ancient Greek survey of botany written by Theophrastus between the 3rd and the 2nd century BC.
* Historia Plantarum in Palatinatu Electorali is a book by Johan Adam Pollich published 1776 – 1777.
* Nomenclator ex Historia Plantarum Indigenarum Helvetiae Excerptus Auctore by Albrecht von Haller is an index ( nomenclator ) to his Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae Inchoata published in 1768.
Botanical historian Alan Morton notes that Theophrastus in his Enquiry into Plants " had an inkling of the limits of culturally induced ( phenotypic ) changes and of the importance of genetic constitution " ( Historia Plantarum III, 2, 2 and Causa Plantarum I, 9, 3 ).
* John Ray begins publication of his Historia Plantarum, including the first biological definition of the term species ; also his edition of Francis Willughby's Historia Piscum.
Similarly important for herbalists and botanists of later centuries was Theophrastus ' Historia Plantarum, written in the fourth century BC, which was the first systematization of the botanical world.
Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( 1728 – 1737, illustrated by Jacob van Huysum ), and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues ( 1749 ) and Georgics ( 1741 ) of Virgil.
It was Aristotle ’ s pupil Theophrastus ( 371 – 287 BCE ) in his Historia Plantarum and De Causis Plantarum ( better known as the Enquiry into Plants ) that established the scientific method of careful and critical observation associated with modern botanical science.
Historia and Rariorum
Matthias de Lobel ( 1538 – 1616 ) published his Stirpium Adversaria Nova ( 1570 – 1571 ) and a massive compilation of illustrations while Clusius ’ s ( 1526 – 1609 ) magnum opus was Rariorum Plantarum Historia of 1601 which was a compilation of his Spanish and Hungarian floras and included over 600 plants that were new to science.
Historia and History
He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".
Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
She makes no appearance in Bede's work, the Historia Brittonum, the Mabinogion or Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.
Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.
The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ).
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