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It is found in some form in almost every book on agriculture since Cato, until we reach the literature in which science has taken the place of wisdom in the Byzantine Geoponica, the Italian Crescenzi, the Dutch Heresbach, the French Maison Rustique, and the English Gervase Markkam.
In Germany, as has been shown, the original little Flemish treatise had a wide vogue in the 16th century, and fishing played a part in a good many books on husbandry such as that of Conrad Heresbach . Fish and fish-ponds formed the main topic of a Latin work by Dubravius , while Gesner in the middle of the 16th and Aldrovandi at the beginning of the 17th centuries wrote at length on the natural history of fishes.
Columella, Heresbach, Worlidge, and even the writers of the "Geoponica," dwindle into insignificance in the comparison. He is not, indeed, always absolutely accurate on historical points; but in all essentials his books are so complete as to have made them standard works up to a time long subsequent to their issue.
This method is available in level or prairie countries and to those who do not need to save the straw." That ingenious Dutchman Conrad Heresbach refers, in his Husbandry, to Palladius' description of the Gallic header with small respect, which indicates that in the sixteenth century it was no longer in use.
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