THE series of volumes known as “English Botany” was begun in 1790 by James Sowerby, the botanic artist, who engaged Dr. James Edward Smith, the possessor of the Linnean collections and founder of the ...
A page from the sixth-century Byzantine Codex Aniciae Julianae, the oldest illuminated copy of the writings of Dioscorides, ancient botanist and pharmacognosist. This is one of around 500 botanical ...