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Portraits of the Founding Fathers of Botanical Study
1850247341850. Very good condition. An archive of 27 portraits of the founding fathers of botany including Dodoens Leeuwenhoek Grew Hill Aldrovandi Smith Desfontaines Palisot Gessner Everard Bonnet Banks Buffon Gray Evelyn Linnaeus Cuvier Klein Clusius and Agassiz.<br /> <br /> 1. Rembert Dodoens born Rembert Van Joenckema 1517 – 1585 was a Flemish physician and botanist. Rembert Dodoens Rembertus Dodonaeus was one of the great botanists of the 16th century who pursued a knowledge of plants in their own right not simply for medicinal uses. Contemporary copper engraving 4 7/8 x 7" on 7 3/8 x 10 1/2".<br /> <br /> 2. Antonius Leeuwenhoek 1632 - 1723 Dutch "Father of Microbiology" with botanical importance who worked with William III of Orange and his wife Mary II of England and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Copper engraving 5 1/2 x 7 1/8".<br /> <br /> 3. Nehemiah Grew 1641 – 1712 was an English plant anatomist and physiologist known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Copper engraving 5 3/4 x 9 1/4".<br /> <br /> 4. John Hill ca. 1714 – 1775 was an English author and botanist who contributed to contemporary periodicals including the botanical compendium 'The Vegetable System'. Copper engraving 8 7/8 x 11 1/4" on 9 5/8 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 5. Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 – 1605 was an Italian naturalist professor of botany and one of the founders of the Bologna's botanical garden one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the Comte de Buffon considered Aldrovandi the father of natural history studies. 5 7/8 x 8 3/8".<br /> <br /> 6. Sir James Edward Smith 1759 – 1828 was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society 5 x 7" on 8 7/8 x 11 5/8".<br /> <br /> 7. Rene Louiche Desfontaines 1750 – 1833 was a French botanist who studied medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier at the Jardin des Plantes 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 8. Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel 1776 – 1854 was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology 9 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 9. Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot Baron de Beauvois 1752 - 1820 Paris was a French naturalist who was trained as a botanist and published an important paper on American entomology 9 x 12".<br /> <br /> 10. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 1748 – 1836 was a French botanist notably the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; his system remains largely in use today 9 1/2 x 12 1/2". <br /> <br /> 11. Conrad Gessner 1516 – 1565 was a Swiss physician and naturalist regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography zoology and botany. Gessner was working on a major botanical text at the time of his early death from the plague 3 5/8 x 5 1/8" on 6 1/8 x 7 7/8".<br /> <br /> 12. Michael Rotenbeck 1569 - 1623 physician and collector of botanical works. Copper engraving 7 5/8 x 4 3/4" on 13 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 13. Dr. Giles Everard or Gilles Everaerts 16th century; active in 1580s Dutch physician who wrote works on the beneficial medicinal effects of tobacco smoking. Copper engraving 4 7/8 x 6" on 8 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 14. Charles Bonnet 1720 – 1793 Naturalist and philosophical writer. He coined the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. 8 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 15. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopediste. Buffon was the director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon published 36 quarto volumes of his 'Histoire Naturelle' during his lifetime. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". 4 1/2 x 6 3/8" on 9 x 11 1/2".<br /> <br /> 16. Sir Joseph Banks 1st Baronet GCB PRS 1743 – 1820 English naturalist botanist and patron of the natural sciences. 7 x 10 3/8".<br /> <br /> 17. Asa Gray 1810 – 1888 is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was significant as an explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was convinced that a genetic connection existed between all members of a species. He was opposed to the idea of hybridization within one generation and believed evolution was guided by a Creator. 6 x 8 5/8".<br /> <br /> 18. John Evelyn 1620 - 1706 author and botanist noted for his knowledge of trees. Evelyn's treatise Sylva or A Discourse of Forest-Trees 1664 was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for the English navy. 8 x 10".<br /> <br /> 19. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778 Carl von Linne was a Swedish botanist physician and zoologist who formalized binomial nomenclature the modern system of naming organisms. 6 images: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" 6 x 8 1/2" 4 7/8 x 8 5 1/2 x 9" 7 x 10 1/2" 6 1/4 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 20. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Baron Cuvier 1769 – 1832 known as Georges Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. 4 images: 5 x 8 1/4" 6 3/4 x 9 7/8" 6 x 9" 7 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 21. Jacob Theodor Klein 1685 – 1759 was a German jurist historian botanist zoologist mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II the Strong. 9 x 14 5/8" on 9 1/2 x 15 1/2".<br /> <br /> 22. Charles de l'Ecluse L'Escluse or Carolus Clusius 1526 – 1609 was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. 4 5/8 x 6 5/8".<br /> <br /> 23. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807 – 1873 was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 24. John Lindley 1799 - 1865 English botanist and orchidologist whose orchid collection was housed at Kew's herbarium noted for his 'Theory and Practice of Horticulture'.<br /> <br /> 25. Joseph Decaise 1807 - 1882 French botanist and agronomist. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 26. Louis Van Houtte 1810 -1876. Belgian horticulturist. Published the "Journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe". 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 27. Georg Eberhard Rumphius Rumpf 1627 - 1702 Batavian botanist best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense a catalogue of the plants of the island of Amboina Indonesia. 9 1/2 x 14".<br /> <br /> The portraits mainly steel engraved some lithographic mostly 4to. All in very good condition. unknown
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