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AMBROSINI, BARTOLOMEO (1588-1657)

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AMBROSINI, BARTOLOMEO (1588-1657)

AMBROSINI, BARTOLOMEO (1588-1657) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian naturalist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and died at See also:

Bologna. He was a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

ALDROVANDI, ULISSI (1522-1605)

Aldrovandi, several of whose See also:

WORKS

works he published, and whom he succeeded eventually as director of the university botanical See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden. He studied at the university, and became successively See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, of See also:

BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany and of See also:

MEDICINE

medicine; and during the See also:

PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague of 163o in Bologna he worked assiduously for the See also:

RELIEF

relief of the sufferers. He was the author of several medical works of some importance in their See also:

day. His See also:

BROTHER

brother, GIAcINTO AMBROSINI (1605-1672), was a distinguished botanist, who succeeded Bartolomeo as professor of botany and director of the university garden in 1657. He published a See also:

CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of its See also:

PLANTS

plants and also a botanical See also:

DICTIONARY

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