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gleichan ist gewesen. Uff das ich aber dann truch besorgt, Hebe ich mit
bitt und von desu vermocht gelert lant, Sie der Artzney und das lateins
kündig gewesen sind, die dies buch corrigiert haben... denn es sein nit
minder dann sechs tausend irthuob darummen kunnen.") In spite of these
5000 eliminated errors, young Grüninger's edition makes, outwardly seen,
an even worse impression, as the section about herbs is not illustrated
at all, while the rest only contains a few pictures, more than 30 years old,
of distillation apparatus and medical instruments.

Not only the woodblocks copied from the two Hortus editions had a
considerable span of life at Strasbourg, but also the pictures of the Har-
barius were given new life there, in particular those, that were in the
edition, produced by Johann and Conrad Hiest at Spayer. We meet them in a
work by Petrus de Crescentis, entitled:"Von dem/ nutz der ding die in Moko-
ren gebuwt werd..." ("About the usefulness of things that are planted in
fields..") In the first edition, which the printer Johann Knoblouch made
his colleague Johannes Schott print in 1512, the chapter numbers, which I
have mentioned earlier, were still visible on most of the woodcuts; in the
second one however, which Hans Knoblouch the younger printed in 1531, the
numbers have all been eliminated.

II

The beginning of scientific research.
Whereas up to now our impressions of Strasbourg have been rather unfavour-
able, we shall now see this town as the place, at which a thorough change
in botanical science took its start. At the same time at which Beck, Grün-
ninger and Knoblouch still offered their readers illustrations that were
between 30 and 45 years old, their colleague Hans Schott published the
herbal of Otto Brunfels, which in text and illustrations is far superior
to all its predecessors.