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scientific method. From the 15th century the apothecary gained the status of a skilled practitioner, but by the end of the 19th century the medical professions...

became a very fashionable substitute for black pepper in the 14th and 15th century Europe, especially in northern France, one of the most populous regions...

Mexico, growing at 7,500-10,000 ft elevation. It was named in honor of 15th century Swiss botanist Conrad Gessner, for whom the genus Gesneria and family...

the 12th century, and subsequently introduced to the rest of Europe. Globe Artichokes were first cultivated at Naples around the middle of the 15th century...

during the Middle Ages in the profitable Indian Ocean trade. In the late 15th century, Portugal started trading in the Indian Ocean, including nutmeg, under...

and Africa, which made them extremely expensive. From the 8th until the 15th century, the Republic of Venice had the monopoly on spice trade with the Middle...

aqueducts with a public fountain, a practice that was revived in Rome in the 15th century, when the restored Aqua Felice once more delivered a symbolic presentation...

clicking on succeeding works in chronological order. Since late in the 15th century, a number of authors had become concerned with what they called methodus...

brewing was in 1079. Hops were introduced to British beers in the early 15th century, and hop cultivation began in the present-day United States in 1629....

ago. By the 15th century, toxic chemicals such as arsenic, mercury and lead were being applied to crops to kill pests. In the 17th century, nicotine sulfate...

cultivated for centuries at the village level, probably since the late 18th century, and commercially in south-eastern Asia since the mid 20th century. In his...

Iberian Peninsula when they conquered it in 711. After the middle of the 15th century, rice spread throughout Italy and then France, later propagating to all...

after its introduction to Italy in the 11th century, was bitter. Sweet oranges brought to Europe in the 15th century from India by Portuguese traders, quickly...

explorers of the 15th and 16th centuries, however it is not clear to which species reference was being made (Huisman, 2000 p.7). In the 17th Century there was...