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PhytognomonicaGiambattista della Porta

Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

Phytognomonica

by Giambattista della Porta

Della Porta's illustrated Latin treatise on recognising the virtues of plants from their outward appearance, published at Naples. Its woodcuts comparing plants with human organs made it a key work of the doctrine of signatures.

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