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Joseph de Jussieu (1704–1779), brother of Antoine and Bernard, was born in Lyon on 3 September 1704. Educated like the rest of the family for the medical profession, he accompanied C. M. de la Condamine to Peru, in the expedition for measuring an arc of the meridian, and remained in South America for thirty-six years, returning to France in 1771.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, född den 12 april 1748 i Lyon, död den 17 september 1836 i Paris, var en fransk botaniker, brorson till Antoine, Bernard och Joseph de Jussieu .
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
1944 American Mayor of New York City (Republican: 1994-2001) at the time of the September 11 attacks, born in New York City. 1944 Sondra Locke, American actress (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Willard), and director (Impulse), born in Shelbyville, Tennessee (d. 2018) 1945 Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor.
Joseph de Jussieu (3 September 1704 – 11 April 1779), was a French botanist and explorer, member of the Jussieu family. He introduced the common garden heliotrope ( Heliotropium arborescens) to European gardeners. He was born in Lyon, and was the brother of Bernard and Antoine de Jussieu. [1] He accompanied Charles Marie de La Condamine ...
Poivre, Pierre (1719-1786) (specimens from) Biography. French botanist born into a family of plant enthusiasts, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was based at the Jardin du Roi in Paris and was the seminal advocate of a natural system of classification. His uncle, Bernard de Jussieu was a respected botanist and invited the young Antoine to Paris as ...
Joseph de Jussieu retornou doente à França em 1771, e morre após alguns anos sem ter tido tempo para escrever as suas memórias. Apesar da perda de uma grande parte dos seus manuscritos e das suas coleções, enriqueceu consideravelmente os herbários do rei, atualmente preservados no Museu Nacional de História Natural de Paris.
