Nicholas Culpeper, a British botanist, was born on October 18, 1616, and died on January 10, 1654. He is known for his herbal books, which had a profound impact on herbalism at the time and in subsequent years.
Source: The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...