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Among the earliest of botanical works, written around 300 BC, are two large treatises by Theophrastus: On the History of Plants (Historia Plantarum) and On the Causes of Plants. Together these books constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and on into the Middle Ages. The Roman medical writer, Dioscorides, provides important evidence on Greek and Roman knowledge of officinal plants.
In 1665, using an early microscope, Robert Hooke discovered cells in cork; a short time later in living plant tissue. Upon viewing a thin slice of cork, he wrote:
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The German Leonhart Fuchs, the Swiss Conrad Gessner, and the british authors Nicholas Culpeper and John Gerard, published herbals that gave information on the officinal uses of plants.
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