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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. Life. Tournefort's research journeys.
Oct 30, 2012 · By Lisa Smith, W&M Contributor. 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).
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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Dec 8, 2017 · A Voyage into the Levant, by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Volume 3 (London, 1741), in 532 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages, with illustrations. Volume 3, translated into English from the French original, contains Letters 4-10 which include "Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor."
A Voyage into the Levant. Perform'd by Command of the Late French King. Search within full text. Get access. Volume 1. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Translated by John Ozell. Publisher: Cambridge University Press.
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), studied medicine in Montpellier around 1679 after his father died. Prior to that, he had made his first botanical expedition with Charles Plumier (1646-1706) through Provence and Savoy.
3 July 1700: The French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, accompanied by the German physician Andreas Gundelsheimer, the French artist Claude Aubriet, and a native Cretan guide, 1 scales Mount Ida in the scorching summer heat in search of plants. For Tournefort, educated in the Greek and Latin classics by Jesuits in his native Aix-en ...
