By Michael North This post is the fifth in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are
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Early Journals: What’s in a Name?
By Atalanta Grant-Suttie The journal is so much a part of the current apparatus of scholarly communication that one never really thinks where and how
Research Reborn: Dioscorides and Mattioli
By Michael North This post is the fourth in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are
An Early Look at the Turkey
By Michael North ~ Turkeys were one of many animals and plants the Europeans encountered in the New World beginning in 1492. There were wild
A Portal of Death
By Elizabeth Mullen
Are you ready to walk and talk with the skeletons? It’s Halloween again. This ‘portal of death’ is the frontispiece from Bernardino Genga’s beautiful Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disengno…, 1691.
A German Botanical Renaissance
By Michael North This post is the third in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are