February 18, 2022 Valerius Cordus, André Robert Breton, Toni Morrison, The Secrets of the Great Botanists by Matthew Biggs, and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne

The Daily Gardener · Feb 18, 2022 · 10m

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1515 Birth of Valerius Cordus, German physician, botanist, and pharmacologist. He wrote one of the most popular herbals in history and discovered a way to synthesize ether, which he called oleum dulci vitrioli, or "sweet oil of vitriol." Centuries later, the botanist Thomas Archibald Sprague re-published "The…