Stories
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
Catalogue
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From xylography to holography : five centuries of natural history illustration / by Gavin D.R. Bridson.
Bridson, Gavin D. R. (Gavin Douglas Ruthven), 1936-Date: 1989- Books
Kräuter- und Pflanzenbücher vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart : eine Ausstellung der Universitätsbibliothek Düsseldorf,2. Mai - 30. Juni 1984 / Auswahl und Gestaltung : Rudolf Schmitt.
Universitätsbibliothek Düsseldorf.Date: [1984]- Books
Botany in the Low Countries : (end of the 15th century - ca. 1650) Plantin-Moretus Museum exhibition / [editors F. de Nave and D. Imhof].
Date: 1993- Books
Le dessin de fleurs à la fin du 18ème siècle : l'herbier peint de Rosalie de Constant / [Jean-Louis Moret, rédacteur].
Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux (Lausanne, Switzerland)Date: [1994]- Books
Im Garten der Gesundheit : Pflanzenbilder zwischen Natur, Kunst und Wissen in gedruckten Kräuterbüchern des 15. Jahrhunderts / Pia Rudolph.
Rudolph, PiaDate: [2020]