Another work from Ancient Greece that made an early impact on botany is De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine written in the middle of the first century by Greek physician and pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides. De Materia Medica was widely read for more than 1,500 years. Important contributions from the medieval Muslim world include 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) wrote on botany in a systematic and scientific manner. COUNT 5
QSN1 What is the name of an ancient Greek work impacting botany? ANS1 De Materia Medica QSN2 What was the De Materia Medica written about? ANS2 herbal medicine QSN3 What was the profession of the man who wrote De Materia Medica? ANS3 physician and pharmacologist QSN4 Besides the Greeks, what other culture contributed to the study of botany? ANS4 medieval Muslim world QSN5 How long a book is the De Materia Medica? ANS5 five-volume