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Born January 17, 1501 • Germany
Died May 10, 1566 (aged 65) • Tübingen • Germany
Notable Works “Historia Stirpium”

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Leonhard Fuchs.
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Otto Brunfels
German botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist
Crateuas
Greek artist and physician
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
botanical illustration
Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Andrea Cesalpino
Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist
Rembert Dodoens
Flemish physician and botanist
Gibson, William Hamilton
William Hamilton Gibson
American illustrator and author
Alpini, engraving
Prospero Alpini
Italian scientist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist

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