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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan loʁɑ̃ də ʒysjø]; 12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on an extended unpublished work by his uncle, the ...
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Nov 28, 2019 · It is mainly to Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu and the publication of his Genera plantarum (1789) (1748–1836), which extended the work of his uncle Bernard (1699–1777) that we owe the success and popularization of natural classification. He gave precedence to the family taxon of plants before the genus and considered a method of affinity ...
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Aug 17, 2023 · By contrasting “method” and “system,” in 1789 Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu invented the catchwords of the expert debate on natural and artificial system-building after Linnaeus (Jussieu, Genera plantarum, ii). “System” alluded of course to the famous or notorious sexual system of Linnaeus which then was taken as paradigm for an ...
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3 days ago · Quick Reference. (1748–1836) French plant taxonomist. Jussieu was born into a family of eminent botanists from Lyons in France. His uncles Antoine, Bernard, and Joseph de Jussieu all made important contributions to botany and his son, Adrien, subsequently continued the family tradition. After graduating from the Jardin du Roi in 1770, Jussieu ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (born April 12, 1748, Lyon—died Sept. 17, 1836, Paris) was a French botanist who developed the principles that served as the foundation of a natural system of plant classification.
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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 ...
On August 4th 1789, the day feudal rights and privileges were abolished in France, Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu published the Genera Plantarum.This book, written in Latin and never translated into French, was his great work, painstakingly written over fifteen years of detailed and systematic examination of all the plants and naturalist materials to which he had access as professor of botany at ...
