Image Title-page, 1st ed. of Part 3, collaborative paraphrase of Plantarum libri sex / Six Books of Plants (1662- 1667), with The Works of Abraham Cowley, 6th ed. (London, 1689). Editor's copy.

Image Big-head cabbage 2. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Spleenwort. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Narcissus. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image The bites of mad dogs. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [combine as 1 im.] Herbals, slow distillation, and poetry. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Rose polyglot. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Noah. Andrea Pisano (1270-1345), from Campanile di Giotto, Florence. Reproduced courtesy of Museo dell Opera Duomo, Florence.

Image Adam and Eve, the first primitives. From Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 1 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634) (tinted in the U. Va. German version).

Image Hunted hunters: Adonis and Venus. From Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens (Oppenheim, 1617). Reproduced by permission of the Wellesley College Library, Special Collections. By her sire Myrrha fair Adonis got, Venus' beloved, whom the boar laid low; running to him, wounding her foot, she tinged with her own blood what first was white, the rose. She wept (the Syrians wept, all shared the woe), and laid him out on lettuce soft below.

Image Still talking: the language of flowers. From Lewis Carroll, Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there (London, 1872). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Amazons recruiting. From Levinus Hulsius, Voyages, Pt. 5 (Nuremberg, 1598). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Image Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), Cowley's executor. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Title-page, anon. part-paraphrase of Plantarum Book VI. By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Image Boscobel, Charles II's refuge after the Battle of Worcester, 3 September 1651. From The Boscobel Tracts, ed. J. Hughes, 2nd. ed. (Edinburgh and London, 1857).

Image From The Boscobel Tracts, ed. J. Hughes, 2nd. ed. (Edinburgh and London, 1857).

Image Artificial flowers. From Giovanni Battista Ferrari, De florum cultura libri IV (Rome, 1633). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. [4.579]]

Image The Pomp of Spring. From Giovanni Battista Ferrari, De florum cultura libri IV (Rome, 1633). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Alexander with Priest of the Trees of the Sun and the Moon. Manuscript illumination from Johann Hartlieb, Alexanderbuch (Augsburg, 1455-65, MS.). Reproduced courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

Image Emblem of Cambridge, Cowley's Alma mater. From Sophocles, Tragoediae VII (Cambridge, 1665). Editor's copy.

Image [should be "trunk"] I have overcome fate by enduring (Virgil, Aen. 11.156). From Giulio Cesare Cappaccio, Delle Imprese (Naples, 1592). By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Image Mexico City. From Samuel de Champlain, Brief Discours des choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentales (1603, water-color, MS.). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Image Charles I (1600-1648/49, r. 1625-1648/49). From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Charles II (1630-1685, r. 1660-1685). From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Chief Druid with oak branch. From Henry Rowlands, Mona Antiqua Restaurata, 2nd ed. (London, 1766). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Cowley's last home. From Samuel Johnson, Lives of the British Poets, ed. William Hazlitt (London, 1854). Alderman Library, the University of Virginia.

Image Bards and Druids. From Aylett Sammes, Britannia antiqua illustrata (London, 1676). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Garden in the round. From Giovanni Battista Ferrari, De florum cultura libri IV (Rome, 1633). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collectiona of the University of Virginia.

Image Tenochtitl n / Mexico City. From Hern n Cortes, Praeclara Fernandi . . . epistola (Nuremberg, 1524). Reproduced from the original in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

Image Seduced by reflection: the boy Cowley meets Spenser's Faerie Queene. From Samuel Johnson, Lives of the British poets, ed. William Hazlitt (London, 1854). Alderman Library, the University of Virginia.

Image Cowley the proto-Romantic, after Mary Beale n‚e Craddock (1633-1699). From Memoirs and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, 4 vols. (London, 1906). Alderman Library, the University of Virginia.

Image Garden-grave. From Virgil, Opera (Lyons, 1517). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Flora attired by the Elements. From Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, a Poem in Two Parts (London, 1791). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. debrypg [ = pt8frnt1 from De Bry]

Image Beech / Cork-oak / Holm-oak. From Joannes Jonstonus, Dendrographia (Frankfurt, 1662). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [ Please add trees besieged detail, as well.] New World trees besieged. From Joannes Jonstonus, Dendrographia (Frankfurt, 1662). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image & dendro2 Dodona's Grove / A parley of trees confederatts. From James Howell, Dendrologia, 2nd pt. (1650). By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Image Orange Variations. From Joannes Jonstonus, Dendrographia (Frankfurt, 1662). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Fig / Banyan / Indian Fig. From Joannes Jonstonus, Dendrographia (Frankfurt, 1662). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Lotus / Jujube / Cornel tree. From Joannes Jonstonus, Dendrographia (Frankfurt, 1662). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. dreamer1,2 Dream-vision in Progress. From Francesco Colonna, Discours du songe de Poliphili (Paris, 1546) (French translation of Hypnerotomachia Polyphili). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Druid, Stonehenge, and Oak. From Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales (London, 1784[?]-1787). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image George Villiers (1625-1687), 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Cowley's friend and patron. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. eve Eve. Gislebertus, 12th c., stonework from the cathedral of St.-Lazare, Autun. Reproduced from the original in Musee Rolin, Autun.

Image Flora and Pomona. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Flora in the Garden, Jan Breughel the Elder (1568-1625). Reproduced by permission of Bayerische Staatsgemalde- sammlungen, Munich. florum The Year wreathed with Flowers. From Giovanni Battista Ferrari, De florum cultura libri IV (Rome, 1633). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Passion-flower 1. From John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris: A Garden of . . . Pleasant Flowers (London, 1629). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Martin Clifford (d. 1677), addressee of Sprat's Life of Cowley. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Hobbesian body politic. Title-page from Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (London, 1651). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image The boar in the garden / A parley of flowers. Thomas Fuller, Anthologia. The Speech of Flowers. Partly Morall, Partly Misticall (London, 1655). Reproduced courtesy of the Chapin Library at Williams College, Special Collections. garden1/gardenr [Please join as one image.] Garden Microcosm. From Antoine Joseph Dezallier, Theory and Practice of Gardening, trans. John James (London, 1712). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Green cabinets and garden great halls. From Antoine Joseph Dezallier, Theory and Practice of Gardening, trans. John James (London, 1712). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Druid "Cirque or Theatre" / "Place of Judicature," with "Grove inclosing the Whole." From Henry Rowlands, Mona Antiqua Restaurata, 2nd ed. (London, 1766). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Dr. William Harvey (1578-1657), Cowley's friend and mentor. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. herbstruck. Cowley as Nature-Bard. From Cowley, Poetical Works, 4 vols. (Edinburgh, 1777).

Image Dark wood / Hartz Forest. From Francesco Colonna, Discours du songe de Poliphili (Paris, 1546) (French tr. of Hypnerotomachia Polyphili). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image History Stalling for Time. From Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales (London, 1784[?]-1787). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. holbein1/holbein2 [combine as one image] Cannibals surveyed, Hans Holbein? From J. Huttich, Novus Orbis Regionum (Basel, 1532). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image The Strife of Love in a Dream. From Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, title-page, (Venice, 1499). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Satyrical title-page. From Francesco Colonna, Discours du songe de Poliphili (Paris, 1546) (French translation of Hypnerotomachia Polyphili). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Holm-oak, emblem of factional warfare. From Andrea Alciati, Emblemata, ed. C. Mignault (Padua, 1621). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Four-seasons botanical garden. From Herman Boerhaave, Index plantarum (Lyons, 1710). Reproduced with permission from the special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image The Great Mother, syncretized Isis. From Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Rome, 1652). Reproduced courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. james1 [image should be retitled charles1] Charles I on the scaffold, 30 January 1648/49. From Charles I [?], Eikon Basilike ([London?] 1648). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [combine into one image] The "degrees" of plants' physical properties. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. [1.63 n. 3]]

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Image The Battle of Lowestoft, 3 June 1665, anon. Italian engraving. Reproduced courtesy of the Rijksmuseum Library, Amsterdam. mattioli Mattioli the Herbalist. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Merlin as a wild man brought before King Arthur. From l'Ystoire du Saint Graal et du Merlin (French, 15th c., MS.). Reproduced courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

Image Mulberry, emblem of prudent reserve. From Andrea Alciati, Emblemata, ed. C. Mignault (Padua, 1621). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [defective] Apollo and the Muses. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645. From Joshua Sprigg, Anglia Rediviva (London, 1647). Reproduced from the original in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

Image Emblematic title-page. From Joannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis libri XVIII (1633). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image The Royal Oak: Charles II and Carles. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Avenue plantings. From Giovanni Battista Ferrari, De florum cultura libri IV (Rome, 1633). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image The golden apples of longevity. From Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens (Oppenheim, 1617). Reproduced by permission of the Wellesley College Library, Special Collections.

Image Orpheus and the Bacchantes. From Ovid, Metamorphoses (Antwerp, 1591). Reproduced with permission of the Bailey / Howe Library, University of Vermont.

Image Oxford Botanical Garden, scene of Cowley's Book II. From David Loggan, Oxonia Illustrata (Oxford, 1675). Reproduced from the original in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

Image Apple / Quince. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Compendium de plantis (Venice 1571). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Oranges and Lemons. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Compendium de plantis (Venice 1571). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. p130-1 "Adam's apple" / Pear. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Compendium de plantis (Venice 1571). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. p213 Hollyhock. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Compendium de plantis (Venice 1571). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. p331 Cyclamen ("Sow-Bread") 1. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Compendium de plantis (Venice 1571). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Laurel 1. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Compendium de plantis (Venice 1571). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Mushrooms ("Champignons"). From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Compendium de plantis (Venice 1571). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Safron crocus. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Lilies of a day / Wall-flowers. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Orchid (Satyrion) 2. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Water-lily (Nymphaea). From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

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Image Banana (Musa) with fruits. From Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Commentaires sur . . . Dioscoride, trans. M.A. du Pinet (Lyons, 1605). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Parkinson's Earthly Paradise (emblematic title- page). From John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris: A Garden of . . . Pleasant Flowers (London, 1629). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Automaton-fountain (Apollo and the Muses). From Giovanni Battista Falda, Le Fontane Delle Ville di Frascati (Rome, 1675-91). Courtesy of the John Work Garrett Library of the Johns Hopkins University.

Image Pennyroyal. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Oak. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Eyebright. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Sage. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Mint. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Mistletoe. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Dodder. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Cherry. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Onion. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Mugwort (Artemisia). From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

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Image Poppy. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Wormwood. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Orchid (Satyrion) 1. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. [same desc. tit. for image < comms des pl]

Image Peach. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Rue. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Winter Cherries (Bladderwort). From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Grapevine. From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Linden (Lime-tree). From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Bramble (Blackberry). From Leonhart Fuchs, Plantarum Eefigies [sic] (Lyons, 1551). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Women on top: Phyllis and Aristotle (1601?), Joseph Heintz the Elder. Reproduced courtesy of Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest.

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Image The Curious Knot: Wedlock as Blessing. From Barthelemy Aneau, Picta Poesis (Lyons, 1564). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Destructive Indulgence (Unmade in the Shade). From Barthelemy Aneau, Picta Poesis (Lyons, 1564). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Title-page, Plantarum libri duo (London, 1662). By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. porta Art, Nature, and Wonder. Giovanni Battista della Porta, Natural Magick (London, 1658). Reproduced from the original in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

Image Portrait of Abraham Cowley, possibly by G. Soest or Zoust (c. 1600-1680/81). Courtesy of the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia.

Image Virtual leverage: the power of outlandishness. From Johannes Bolland, Af-Beeldinghe van d'eerste eevwe der Societeyt Iesv / Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu (Antwerp, 1640). By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Image [ ENLARGE ] Savage gods of the Aztecs. Title-page from Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 12 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Pictish Headhunter. From Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 1 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Pictish Woman Warrior. From Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 1 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image New World Bitter Harvest. From Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 4 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image God, Glory, and Gold. Title-page from Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 5 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Wilderness Last Stand. From Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 5 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Drake Circumnavigating. From Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 8 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Rotting to Revive: Emblematic Herbs. From J. Martin, Le paradis terrestre, ou, Emblemes sacrez de la solitude (Paris, 1655). By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Image The Royal Oak, 150 years later. From The Boscobel Tracts, ed. J. Hughes, 2nd. ed. (Edinburgh and London, 1857).

Image Druid sacrificial grove. From Elias Schedius, De dis Germanis (Amsterdam, 1648). Reproduced with permission of Duke University, Special Collections Library.

Image Too Much of a Good Thing: Semele struck by lightning bears Bacchus. From Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, title-page, (Venice, 1499). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Ancient Britaines Depicted. From John Speed, Historie of Great Britain (London, 1632). Reproduced from the original in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

Image [defective] Garden maze. From Giovanni Battista Ferrari, De florum cultura libri IV (Rome, 1633). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collectiona of the University of Virginia.

Image Sunflower as Watch. From Athanasuis Kircher, Magnes Siue Arte Magnetica (K”ln, 1643). Reproduced from the original in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

Image [should be cythera] The Garden Isle of Cythera. From Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, title- page, (Venice, 1499). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Yew 1. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Damask rose. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Maidenhair Fern (Venus' Hair) 1, 2. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Peony. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Walnut. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Lotus 2. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Myrrh. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Bear's Ear (Auricula). From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Betony. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Rocket. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Moly 1, 2. From John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. [[1.12, 3.380, 4.474]]

Image Inca Temple of the Sun. From Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), Histoire de la Floride . . . [et] histoire des Inca, trans. P. Richelet (Paris, 1670). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image The Dance of Time. From Francesco Colonna, Discours du songe de Poliphili (Paris, 1546) (French translation of Hypnerotomachia Polyphili). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Passion-flower 2. From John Parkinson, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (London, 1629). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Cyclamen ("Sow-Bread"). From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Hellebore. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image All-heal (Panacea). From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Birthwort. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Moly 3. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [only thumbnail--can't read] From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [defective] From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Spleenwort. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Yew 2. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. [see note above]

Image Laurel 2. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

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Image Mastic. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. [note spelling]

Image Butcher's broom. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Savin. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Ducksmeat. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Mandrake. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Flower of the pomegranate (balaustium). From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Betony. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Larkspur / "Wholesome Monkshood." From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Amaranth. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Big-head Cabbage 1. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Fennel-flower. From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia. theo861 [omit]

Image Marigold (Calendula). From Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Herbalist Heroes. Title-page from Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum (Amsterdam, 1644). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image New World tillers. From Theodor de Bry, America, 13 vols., Pt. 5 (Frankfurt, 1590-1634). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Topiary Giant. From Francesco Colonna, Discours du songe de Poliphili (Paris, 1546) (French translation of Hypnerotomachia Polyphili). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [crop off top 1/3] Native cudgel and peace-pipes. From Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), Histoire de la Floride . . . [et] histoire des Inca, trans. P. Richelet, 2 vols. (Paris, 1670). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Origin of nations / Diffusion of tongues. From Richard Verstegan, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (Antwerp, 1605). Reproduced from the original in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

Image Lord of the Harvest. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527?- 1593), l'Autunno. Reproduced courtesy of Civici Musei di Brescia, Fotostudio Rapuzzi.

Image Young man and the American wild women. From William Fitzer (ed.), Orientalische Indien, Extracted from de Bry's 'India Orientalis' (Frankfurt, 1628). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Image The offerings of Bacchus. From Francesco Colonna, Discours du songe de Poliphili (Paris, 1546) (French trans. of Hypnerotomachia Polyphili). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image [should be "girltree"] Young men nutting for sweethearts. From Theodor de Bry, Proscenium Vitae Humanae (1627). By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Image Rehearsing anatomies. The visceral lecture delivered by Barber-Surgeon John Banister, anon. (1581). By permission of the Glasgow University Library, Special Collections.

Image Wild Bard. From Edward Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (London, 1784). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Druids, Dryads, and Wicker Men. From Aylett Sammes, Britannia antiqua illustrata (London, 1676). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.

Image Sir William Davenant (1606-1668), Cowley's friend and dramatic co-producer. From The Works of Abraham Cowley, 10th ed. (London, 1707). Reproduced with permission from the Special Collections of the University of Virginia.