Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on
Sketch portrait, probably by Jules Pizzetta.
Bust of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by David d'Angers (1837)
Medallion of Jussieu by David d'Angers 1836
Title page of Genera plantarum 1789
Michel Adanson
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Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who travelled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwar
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
…the Genera plantarum (1789), Jussieu adopted a methodology based on the use of multiple characters to define groups, an idea derived from naturalist Michel Adanson. This was a significant improvement over the "artificial" system of Linnaeus, whose most popular work classified plants into classes and orders based…
Marble statue of Adanson displayed at the former Episcopal Palace in Aix-en-Provence, depicted holding a shell