History

 History 

Main article: History of botany The traditional tools of a botanist [edit]

 Early botany

 The history of botany begins with ancient writings on, and classifications of, plants. Such writings are found

in several early cultures. Examples of early botanical works have been found in Ancient Indian sacred texts, ancient Zoroastrian writings, and ancient Chinese works. Theophrastus (c. 371–287 BC) has been frequently referred to as the ”father of botany”.The Greco-Roman world produced a number of botanical works including Theophrastus's Historia Plantarum and

Dioscorides' De Materia Medica from the first century. Works from the medieval Muslim world included Ibn Wahshiyya's Nabatean Agriculture, Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī's (828-896) the Book of Plants, and Ibn Bassal's The Classification of Soils. In the early 13th century, Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, and Ibn al-Baitar (d. 1248) also wrote on botany.