Searching for the Secrets of Nature

Searching for the Secrets of Nature

Author: Simon Varey

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780804739641

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This collection of essays by historians, historians of science and medicine, and literary and textual scholars from several countries analyzes the achievements of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87), author of the monumental The Natural History of New Spain, in the history of medicine and science in Europe and the Americas.