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. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII HIERONYMUS TRAGUS 1498-1554 An original and even eccentric character, singularly gifted as a botanist, was Hieronymus Bock, whose names in literature are several; for his earliest publications were made in Latin, under the name Hieronymus Herbarius. Brunfels in his first volume publishes a number of paragraphs the manuscript of which had been furnished by his friend Bock, and these are all credited to him as Hieronymus Herbarius--Jerome Botanist, or Jerome Herbalist, as you like. So again, in the Appendix to Brunfels' second volume, there is a document of some length, entitled Apodixis Germanica.1 This is in German, and is by Tragus, but still under the name Hieronymus Herbarius. In the numerous German issues of his principal work he figures as an author whose name is Hieronymus Bock. When the great botanical merit of this work had been intimated abroad, and a Latin edition of it was thereby called for, in this he appeared under the Graeco-Latin name Hieronymus Tragus. By this name therefore is he known in the botanical world in general. The genus that was dedicated to him by Father Plumier therefore necessarily took the form of Trag1a. Life. No adequate biography of this interesting character seems to be known. We trust that we have to a certainty the year of his birth; we have the date of his marriage, the maiden name of the bride, the names of her parents, and even the number of guests that were in attendance; and all this out of Tragus' own diary.2 Neither is there any disputing the date of his death, the place of his burial, or the name of the preacher who delivered the funeral panegyric. But all these are matters which, in the biography of a reputed scholar, a practicing physician, and the beneficiary of a lucrative...
