Prospero Alpini
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Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which
Alpini referred to this tree as Bon and noted the popularity of the drink caova made from it. It is thought to be Coffea arabica.
1586 painting of Alpini by Leandro Bassano at the Staatsgallerie, Stuttgart
Historia Aegypti naturalis, 1735
Johann Vesling
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Johann Vesling was a German anatomist and botanist from Minden, Westphalia. He published a major illustrated work on human anatomy Syntagma Anatomicum.
Prospero Alpini
…adopters of Alpini's new botanical names included the botanists Carolus Clusius (died 1609), Johann Bauhin (died 1613), Caspar Bauhin (died 1624) and Johann Veslingius (visited Egypt in the 1620s; died 1649). Prospero Alpini's De Plantis Exoticis was published in 1629 after his death. It has an expansion of the material…
Vesling, c. 1649
Illustration from Syntagma anatomicum
Vesling dissecting a human body