Note 6 — Chapter I · The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to Kaspar Bauhin[2].
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
Ernst Meyer (Geschichte der Botanik) gives a full account of Theophrastus, who was born at Lesbos A.C. 371 and died A.C. 286. An edition of his work ‘De historia et de causis plantarum’ was published by Theodor Gaza in 1483. See also Pritzel’s ‘Thesaurus literarum botanicarum.’