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Also Known As Andreas Caesalpinus
Born June 6, 1519 • Arezzo • Italy
Died February 23, 1603 (aged 83) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “De plantis libri XVI”
Subjects Of Study plant • taxonomy
Alpini, engraving
Prospero Alpini
Italian scientist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
botanical illustration
Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist
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Robert Morison
Scottish botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist

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