Herbarium diluvianum
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| Author | Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob |
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| Full title | Herbarium diluvianum collectum a Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero, medicinae doctore, matheseos professore Tigurino, Academiae Leopoldinae, societatum regiarum Anglicae et Prussicae membro |
| Year | 1709 |
| Place | Zurich |
| Publisher/Printer | Gessner |
| Era | 18th century |
| Form/Genre | Other (see description) |
| Discipline/Content | Meteorology/Earth sciences, Biology |
| Digital copies | |
| Original | Herbarium diluvianum (1st edition, Zurich 1709); Herbarium diluvianum (2nd edition, Leiden 1723) |
| Digital sourcebook | 739100 (Zurich 1709)
739099 (Leiden 1723) |
| Description | This short Herbal of the Flood, dedicated to the Dutch historian and politician Gisbert Cuper (1644–1716), is a companion piece to Scheuchzer's Piscium querelae et vindiciae, published one year before and of similar structure and intention. It consists of ten high-quality coppers, each of which shows a number of petrified plants, collected by Scheuchzer himself, together with the latter's commentaries and explanations. As Scheuchzer explains in his preface to the reader (and repeats on the first two pages of the Herbarium proper), it is his aim to demonstrate that these petrifications are not lusus naturae, but remnants of Noah's Flood, and thereby to defend the historical reality of this event against godless sceptics. In 1723, a second, greatly enlarged edition appeared in Leiden; the extent of its appendix equals that of the original text.
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| Cited in | |
| How to cite this entry | Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob: Herbarium diluvianum, in: Noscemus Wiki, URL: http://wiki.uibk.ac.at/noscemus/Herbarium_diluvianum (last revision: 30.07.2021). |
| Internal notes | |
| Internal notes | Not entirely clear who are Sch.s adversaries.
The commentary of table VI has been translated by Irina Tautschnig for Claude Reichler. The petrifications are also appreciated aesthetically: p. 23 of the 2nd ed.: „Heic, in Tabulae VI prospectu, aperit se campus Naturae... tam affabre pingit, ut omnium Topiariorum Pictorum artem eludat.“ |
| Of interest to | MK |
| Transkribus text available | Yes |
| Written by | MK |
