Mexican Treasury The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernandez

"The Mexican Treasury provides English translations of the major texts of botany and natural history that assimilated, and in many ways transformed, knowledge originally gleaned from Hernandez, with extracts from De Laet, Nieremberg, Lovell, Stubbe, Sloane, Ray and Salmon. One can readily use these extracts as student assignments for comparing approaches to New World plants such as chilli, cacao and corn."Renaissance Quarterly "The primary voice of the book is that of Dr. Hernandez himself. He is a prolific writer. . . . The translators have made all of this easily readable and provide abundant footnoted documentation."Southeastern NaturalistHernandez, Francisco is the author of 'Mexican Treasury The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernandez' with ISBN 9780804739634 and ISBN 0804739633.