Behold the Kräuterbuch, a Lavishly Illustrated Information to Crops and Herbs from 1462
When Konrad von Megenberg published his Buch der Natur within the mid-fourteenth century, he gained the distinction of having assembled the very first natural history in German. Greater than half a millennium later, the ebook nonetheless fascinates — not least for its depictions of cats, previously featured right here on Open Culture. Even the works…