OUTLINES 
OF THE 
HISTORY and PROGRESS 
OF 
BOTANY. 
I. PERIOD. 
§ Grecian, Hippocrates . A.N.C. 400 
Theophrastus 320 
§ Roman, P.N.C. 
Dioscorides 70 
Pliny 1000 plants, compilation 74 
Galen. 131 
§ Times of ignorance, 
Italy over-run 
Mahomed’s conquests. 622 
§ Arabian, 
Useful discoveries, Paper 1300 
Mariners compass 1302 
Printing. 1440 
Constantinople taken 1453 
Commentators or translators 
Leonicenus 
Hermolaus 
Gaza 
America discovered by Columbus 1494 
East Indies by the Cape of Good 
Hope 1497
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II.PERIOD, about 1500 
The first prints of plants by Otho Brunselsius 1532 
The first botanic garden at Padua 1540 
The first pharmacopoeia by public authority by Vale- 
rius Cordus at Nuremberg 1544 
Ruellius 
Tragus 
Mathiolus 
Fuschius 
Turner 
C. Gefner!
Dodonaeus 
Caesalpinus. Classification! 1583 
Camerarius 
Tabernae-Montanus 
Clusius 
F. Columna 
J. Bauhinus ! historia plantarun. 
Caso. Bauhinus! Pinax, 6000 plants. Synonim. 1623 
Parkinson 
Gerard 
Jungius! 
III. PERIOD. 
R. Morison, a new method. Historia plantarum 
Rivinus, another new system 1694 
Tournefort! a third system:
his great object, the Genera 
accurate prints of each genus 
J. Ray, natural classes! 
historia plantarum 
Societies for promoting knowledge established, 
at London 1665 
at Paris 1667 
Authors and works during the third period. 
Malpighius 
N. Grew 
Hermannus 
Plumier
Hortus

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Hortus Malabaricus 
Plukenet 
Sir Hans Sloane 
Scheuzer 
Dillenius historia muscorum ! &c. 
Micheli cryptogamia! 
Catesby. 
IV. PERIOD. 1735 
Linnaeus! Sexual system 
Systema naturae, sundamenta botanica 1735
Genera plantarum! Species plantarum!
Fragments of natural method. 
Adrian v. Royen 
Rumphius, Amboina 
Haller, Stirpes Helveticae, &c. 
Philip Miller, Gardener’s dictionary. 
Sir John Hill 
Flora Danica 
Adanson familles des plantes 
Jos. Banks Esq; Dr Solander.