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Apr 11, 2024 · Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (born June 5, 1656, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.—died Dec. 28, 1708, Paris) was a French botanist and physician, a pioneer in systematic botany, whose system of plant classification represented a major advance in his day and remains, in some respects, valid to the present time.
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) 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 voyages.
Son père, Pierre Pitton, écuyer, seigneur de Tournefort, époux de Marguerite Marie Aymare de Fagoue, possède une fortune assez considérable ; il destine son fils Joseph à l'état ecclésiastique.
May 29, 2018 · TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE. (b, Aix-en-Provence, France, 3 June 1656; d. Paris. France, 28 November 1708) botany, medicine. Tournefort, who had one brother and seven sisters, came from a family of the minor nobility. His father, Pierre Pitton, a lawyer and royal secretary, was seigneur of Tournefort; his mother, Aimare de Fagoue, was the ...
En 1694, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), botaniste français, publie son premier ouvrage, Éléments de botanique ou méthode pour connaître les plantes.
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Oct 30, 2012 · From 1700-1702, French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort journeyed through the Greek islands and Constantinople. The following tale is his account of a Greek revenant ( vrykolakas) on the island of Mykonos ( A Voyage into the Levant, vol. 1, 1718).
The French physician and botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) set sail from Marseille to Crete on 24 April 1700, in the company of the German physician Andreas Gundelsheimer and the artist Claude Aubriet, on a voyage to the Levant financed by the French crown.
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