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Michel Adanson (7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus .
Apr 3, 2024 · Michel Adanson (born April 7, 1727, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.—died Aug. 3, 1806, Paris) was a French botanist who devised a natural system of classification and nomenclature of plants, based on all their physical characteristics, with an emphasis on families. In 1749 Adanson left for Senegal to spend four years as an employee with the Compagnie ...
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Sep 14, 2023 · Michel Adanson really existed — he was an 18th-century botanist, as well as a figure of the Siècle des Lumières, the Age of Enlightenment. In “Beyond the Door of No Return,” Diop expands ...
May 18, 2018 · Adanson, Michel. ( b. Aix-en-Provence, France, 7 April 1727; d. Paris, France, 3 August 1806) natural history philosophy. Adanson belonged to an Auvergne family that moved to Provence at the beginning of the eighteenth century and to Paris about 1730. He was educated at the Plessis Sorbon, the Collège Royal, and Jardin du Roi.
Jul 17, 2014 · Letter of August 15, 1749, Lacroix, Michel Adanson au Sénégal, 39–40, and the letter of August 20, 1751: “You will find in my letter . . . two catalogs, the first of which contains species of plants that I send you in herbaria, and the other contains the serial numbers of plants you will receive as seeds,” Lacroix, Michel Adanson au ...
- Xavier Carteret
- 2012
Abstract The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in precolonial Senegal in the 1750s, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes. This essay follows the archival traces of Adanson’s engagement with African indigo, including experiments conducted in an ad hoc “laboratory” near the French fort of Saint Louis. A reconstruction of these experiments exposes the multifarious ...
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Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus.
