The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Gaspard Bauhin (17 Jan 1560 - 5 Dec 1624)
Alias Caspar [alias] Bauhin
Relevant locations: Birth place in Basel, Switzerland
Relationships: Johann Bauhin (12 Dec 1541 -26 Oct 1613) was a brother of Gaspard Bauhin
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Book Caspari Bavhini ... De lapidis bezaar orient. et occident. cervini item et germanici ortv, natvra, differentijs, veroque vsu ex veterum & recentiorum placitis liber hactenus non editus.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Caspari Bauhini Theatri botanici pinax.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Caspari Bauhini viri clariss. Prodromus theatri botanici : in quo plantae supra sexcentae ab ipso primum descriptae cum plurimis figuris proponuntur. quo plantae supra sexcentae ab ipso primum descriptae cum plurimis figuris proponuntur.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Theatri botanici pinax.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Theatrum Botanicum Sive Historia Plantarum Ex Veterum Et Recentiorum placitis Propriaque Observatione concinnata.
References in Documents:
, formed in theFungus lapideus
Saxeus niliof
Fungus lapideusfrom the
Fungus saxeusof
nusMilium Indicum. For what reason I see not, it
having no similitude thereto. That for which it is ob
servable, is, that it looks as if it were
artificially turn'd
upon a Lath. See a
rude Figure hereof in
a small Tree, like a
Hasle, in
a)a)
c. 36ds
over. Divided by a triangular partition into three Cells, for
the lodging of so many Kernels.
like this described and figur'd in
by the Name of
Calix cum Glande incluso maximus ex
Wingandecaow, i. e.
Wingandecaow
and ¼ Diametre, and the sides very thick; composed of a
great number of Scales, as the Empalement of a
Thistle,
and many other Flowers; but here very hard: of an Or
bicular Figure, only open at the top about the breadth of
½ an inch. The
Akornit self, little bigger than the com
mon sort. But their tast and substance may be more
grateful. For in
food. They steep, and boil them, and so eat them either
with Flesh or Fish.
likeness it hath to a little
Heart; but yet flattish, and near as
big as a
Garden-Bean. Described and figur'd by
to the flame of a
Candle, (
e)
e)
of divers colours. Anciently much used in Medicines, now
obsolete, as
Confectio Anacardina, &c. The Oil or Mellagi
nousSuccus
nous
betwixt the Rind and the Kernel is that which is
called(
called
f)
f)
Wormian
(given it by most) or of Honey, must be improper. It
is of a very Caustick and venimous Nature. Being mixed
g)
Tom. 1. 336
with
Lime, 'tis used for the marking of
Cottons(
g) through
out
India .
The
pickle the green Fruit, (
h)
h)
ab Horto
and eat
them as Olives. When perhaps they contain little or none
them as Olives
of that Caustick Oil.
scribed and
figur'd in d)
d)
p. 278Lobus Membranaceus planus niger. If
so, he should not have
called it a Lobe, but the Fruit contained in it. 'Tis about
an inch
and ¾ long, and almost as broad, flat, and very
thin,
and of a blackish brown. One of the edges sharp,
the opposite
somewhat thick.
by
the Cod of a Tree which
grows about
in b)
b)
c. 154Lanifera Arbor peregrina. That
this Cotton is not so white as that
of
the Tree. 'Tis rather
of the colour of raw Silk, and hath
a
gloss like it; extream soft and fine, but not so long as
Cotton wooll; and therefore unfit for
Spinning.
. InIndian Cane
Arundo Arbor. Described by
mius
and much smaller,
sc. about seven inches in compass. Some
of them grow nine or ten yards high. 'Tis hollow, quite
through, excepting, that at every Joynt, 'tis closed up with
a transverse Plate or Floor. Necessary, for the adding
strength and sturdiness proportionable to so great a
height.
BASH,
for such I take it to be, and that therefore it
should have
been placed with that sort of Fruit.
nusa)
a)
c. 1Gourd in shape pretty like to this by the
Name of Cucurbita Lagenaria; but
mentions neither how
big, nor of what hardness the shell; in
which latter re
spect the Fruit here before us, (as
do most Calibashes) far
exceeds all the
sorts of Gourds that I know. 'Tis very
smooth, and of a parchment-colour: near eleven inches
long.
That part of the Neck next the Tree three inches
and ¼
over; next the belly three and ¼; the belly it
self,
nine inches; or two feet three inches about; the top
depressed. The shell as hard almost as a Plum-stone, and at
the small end above a quarter of
an inch thick.
described and figur'd
in b) b)
c. 1Cucurbita Clypeiformis s.
Melopepon latus; at least of kin to it.
Of a Buff
colour, as the former; four inches long, four
and ½
broad; surrounded with undulated Knobs an inch
or 1 ½
over, with furrows between each Knob and by the
length;
depressed at the bottom; the top with a knob ½ an
inch
over.
hinusc)
c)
c.
1Cucurbita amara, fructu parvo, globoso, colore
varia. The Description lies in the Name. A
sort of Colocynthis.
Plant together,
entitul'd, Cucurbita aspera, minima,
sphærica, crocea, variegata.
With a conjecture of its being the
same with that which by
Pepo Indica minor.
Not only the shells of Calabashes, but also
the Rinds of
Gourds, are used as Vessels for Gums, and other matters
brittle. The
little bitter Gourd, being eaten, worketh by
Vomit and Stool. The Water distill'd from unripe Gourds,
applied with Linnen, is most
successful, and a great Expe
riment against that
Heat, called Syriasis, (a) a)
16.
c. 1. p 217
Infants.
b) b)
2.
c. 18
of a brown Bay, and of a softish and light
substance;
the top, which is broadest, above three inches
over, and flat;
divided into about twenty round and open
Cells, almost
like an Honey-Comb. In
each Cell is contained a Bean or
Nut, alike colour'd, of an Oval shape, as big
as a small
Akorn, and in the same manner pointed at the
top. See
also the Figure in
Muscus arboreus scutel
laris. So called, for that it grows with several broad round
laris
Heads, from a ¼ to ½ an inch over, and a little Concave,
not unlike a
Buckler. Described and figur'd in
hinus
and figur'd in
pens à Trago
pictus
hinus
Mosses, with the Title of
Muscus Coralloides.
Figur'd by
Fucus capillaris
tinctorius, s. Roccella. Figur'd
in Imperatus; (a) a)
in b) b)
it admit an exact one, now dry.
'Tis three inches and ½
high, and five or six
about. The Root, in compass, two
inches, one in height,
divided into a great number of small
capillary Branches or
Sprigs, thick set, as in a Broom or
Beard, very brittle, and of a faded Purple. It grows in the
making of
Tinctures both for Painting and Deying.
Myriophyllum pelagium. s.
Muscus maritimus silicis folio.
hath a Figure somewhat
answerable to this Title, and
out of him
either it is faulty, or of
another Species. His, represented
with alternate Branches. Here, they are collaternal, as in the
Male-Firne. And curiously denticulated,
in the like man
ner. It grows in very deep Gulfs
of the Sea.
to be that described in
b)
b)
c
Corallium asperum cauditans adulterinum. The
Branches
only porous within, but also pricked full of
extream small
holes on the outside.