Leonhart Fuchs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German physician and botanist
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Place of Birth: Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany
About Leonhart Fuchs
- Leonhart Fuchs ['f?ks] (17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566), sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs, was a German physician and botanist.
- His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, i.e.
- a herbal.
- It was first published in 1542 in Latin.
- It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from woodcuts.
- The drawings are the book's most notable advance on its predecessors.
- Although drawings were in use beforehand in other Herbal books, Fuchs' Herbal book proved and emphasized high-quality drawings as the most telling way to specify what a plant name stands for. The botanical genus Fuchsia is named in his honour, and consequently the colour fuchsia.
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