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
Marble statue of Adanson displayed at the former Episcopal Palace in Aix-en-Provence, depicted holding a shell
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his
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…this work he developed the principle of arrangement above mentioned, which, in its adherence to natural botanical relations, was based on the system of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and had been anticipated to some extent nearly a century before by John Ray. The success of this work was hindered by its innovations in the use of…
Tournefort Joseph Pitton de 1656 1708
Relation d'un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du roy, 1727