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Genre/Form: | Collected Work Early works Pre-Linnean works Early works to 1800 Ouvrages prélinnéens Ouvrages avant 1800 |
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Named Person: | Francisco Hernández; Francisco Hernández; Francisco Hernández |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Francisco Hernández; Simon Varey |
ISBN: | 0804739633 9780804739634 |
OCLC Number: | 43561934 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Spanish. |
Description: | xix, 281 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Chronology of the texts of Francisco Hernandez -- Introduction -- Mexico, 1571-1615 -- The Low Countries, 1630-1648 -- Italy, c. 1580-1651 -- England, 1659-1825 -- Spain, 1790. |
Other Titles: | Works. |
Responsibility: | Simon Varey, editor ; Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey, translators. |
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"The primary voice of the book is that of Dr. Hernandez himself. He is a prolific writer. . . . The translators have made all of this easily readable and provide abundant footnoted documentation." -- <I>Southeastern Naturalist</I> "The Mexican Treasury provides English translations of the major texts of botany and natural history that assimilated, and in many ways transformed, knowledge originally gleaned from Hernandez, with extracts from De Laet, Nieremberg, Lovell, Stubbe, Sloane, Ray and Salmon. One can readily use these extracts as student assignments for comparing approaches to New World plants such as chilli, cacao and corn." -- <I>Renaissance Quarterly</I> Read more...

