Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper (* 18. Oktober 1616 in London; † 1654 ebenda) war ein englischer Botaniker, Kräuterkundler, Arzt und Astrologe.

Er war der Sohn des Geistlichen Nicholas Culpeper (Senior). Culpeper studierte in Cambridge. Er besaß ein reiches Wissen über Medizin und Kräuter. Culpeper veröffentlichte die Bücher The English Physitian (1652) und Complete Herbal (1653).

Werke

• A Physical Directory, or a Translation of the London Directory (1649) - translation of the Pharmacopoeia Londonesis of the Royal College of Physicians.
• Directory for Midwives (1651)
• Semeiotics Uranica, or (An Astrological Judgement of Diseases) (1651)
• Catastrophe Magnatum or (The Fall of Monarchy) (1652)
• The English Physitian (1652)
  • The English Physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine Medicines, made of English Herbs, that were not in any Impression until this. London : Norris, 1725. Digitalisierte Ausgabe der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
  • The English Physician enlarged with 369 Medicines, made of English Herbs, that were not in any Impression until this. - London, 1799. Digitalisierte Ausgabe
  • The English Physician Enlarged : With Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / by Nich. Culpepper. - London : Barker, ca. 1800. Digitalisierte Ausgabe
• The Complete Herbal (1653)
• A Treatise of Aurum Potabile : Being a description of the three-fold world, viz. elementary celestial intellectual containing the knowledge necessary to the study of hermetick philosophy London (1657)^[1]

Einzelnachweise

1. ↑ National Library of Australia: Mr. Culpepper's Treatise of aurum potabile [electronic resource][1]

Weblinks

• Culpeper's The English Physitian - (1652)
• The Complete Herbal (1653)
• This Sceptered Isle (BBC)
• Biography of Culpeper

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