Timeline
The life and career of Botanical Prints, 1530–1920
Otto Brunfels begins publishing Herbarum vivae eicones, with life-drawn woodcuts by Hans Weiditz
Leonhart Fuchs publishes De historia stirpium in Basel, naming its artists and defending the use of pictures
Basilius Besler publishes Hortus Eystettensis, a landmark florilegium of engraved plates
Maria Sibylla Merian publishes the first volume of her caterpillar book, Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung
Merian publishes Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium in Amsterdam after her voyage to Suriname
Linnaeus publishes Species Plantarum, which establishes the modern system of binomial names
William Curtis launches The Botanical Magazine, a periodical of coloured plates
Robert Thornton begins issuing The Temple of Flora, completed in 1807
Pierre-Joseph Redoute begins publishing Les Liliacees, completed in 1816
Redoute begins publishing Les Roses, completed in 1824
Audubon begins issuing The Birds of America, completed in 1838
Godefroy Engelmann patents a process for chromolithography in France
Bradbury and Thomas Moore publish Nature-Printed British Ferns, a landmark of nature printing