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edition, after an unusually long gap of 34 years. A re­issue like this could be
due to the publisher having printed too many copies and needing to shift stock
at a later date. But given the rarity of the Wrst edition, it seems more likely
that in this case it is due to supression of the Wrst issue, perhaps because of
Jungius’ religious persecution; although in that case it is odd that the second
issue was not published in 1657 when other works which he had been reluctant
to publish began to appear. The revised edition of 1681 describes itself as
‘editio secunda’.
The other work in the volume, Vossius’ Rhetorices contractae, was enormously
popular and was reprinted many times in the seventeenth century after the
Wrst edition was printed at Leiden in 1621.
Hans Kangro, Joachim Jungius’ Experimente und Gedanken zur Begründung der
Chemie als Wissenschaft (1968).
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JuNGIuS, Joachim (1587–1657)
Opuscula botanico­physica ex recensione et distinctione Martini
Fogelii... et Ioh. Vagetii... cum eorundem annotationibus accedit
Iosephi de Aromatariis... ad Bartholomeum Nanti epistola de
generatione plantarum ex seminibus. Omnia collecta, recognita et
revisa novisque annotatiunculis illustrata cura Ioh. Sebast. Albrecht.
Coburg: sumptibus ex typis Georgii Ottonis, typogr. Ducal. Priv., 1747.
4to: a–c4 A–Z4 , 108 leaves, pp. [24] 183 [1]. Woodcut headpieces,
woodcuts of three forms of tree growth on p. 169.
198 x 155mm.
Binding: Recent marbled boards.
First edition of this collection, inluding Jungius, Doxoscopiae physicae min ores
(Wrst edition 1662) and Isagogae phytoscopia, Wrst printed in Praecipuae
Opiniones Physicae (1679); and Giuseppe degli Aromatari’s ‘Epistola de
generatione plantarum ex seminibus’ Wrst printed in his Disputatio de rabie
contagiosa (1525). Pritzel 4524; McLean Evans, Epochal achievements 82;
Dibner, Heralds of Science 23; Norman Library 1193.
This collection reprints Jungius’ seminal works in the history of botany.
Jungius gave botany much of its present nomenclature and Wrst clearly
divided the subject into morphology, physiology and ecology. Linnaeus based
his system of nomenclature on Jungius’ work, via Ray’s Historia plantarum
(1686–1704: see Sachs p. 60). Accused of heresy, most of his writings were
only published after his death.
‘Some few treatises were published by his pupils, among them one entitled
Isagoge phytoscopica (Handbook of Botanical Study). This work, comprising
a volume of forty­six quarto pages, must be regarded as one of the pioneer
works in botany. It gives a concentrated account of the theory of botany,
under the obvious inXuence of Cesalpino’s, but without the latter’s proWtless
Aristotelian speculations... The whole exposition, with its concise, vigorous
sentences and its analyses of diVerent parts of the plant drawn up in tabular
form, is more reminiscent of Linnaeus’s work than that of any other of the