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CAESALPINUS (CESALPIN0), ANDREAS (1519—1603)

CAESALPINUS (CESALPIN0), ANDREAS (1519—1603) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian natural philosopher, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

AREZZO (anc. Arretium)

Arezzo in See also:

Tuscany in 1519. He studied See also:

anatomy and See also:

MEDICINE

medicine at the university of See also:

Pisa, where he took his See also:

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor's degree in 1551, and in 1555 became See also:

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

professor of materia medica and director of the 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. Appointed physician to See also:

Pope See also:

Clement VIII., he removed in 1592 to See also:

Rome, where he died on the 23rd of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1603. Caesalpinus was the most distinguished botanist of his See also:

time. His See also:

WORK

work, De Plantis libri xvi. (See also:

Florence, 1583), was not only the source from which various subsequent writers, and especially See also:

Robert See also:

MORISON, JAMES AUGUSTUS COTTER (1832-1888)

Morison (1620—1683) derived their ideas of botanical arrangement but it was a mine of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science to which See also:

LINNAEUS

Linnaeus himself gratefully avowed his obligations. Linnaeus's copy of the See also:

BOOK

book evinces the See also:

GREAT

great assiduity with which he studied it; he laboured throughout to remedy the defect of the want of synonyms, sub-joined his own generic names to nearly every See also:

SPECIES

species, and particularly indicated the two remarkable passages where the germination of See also:

PLANTS

plants and their sexual distinctions are explained. Caesalpinus was also distinguished as a physiologist, and it has been claimed that he had a clear See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of the circulation of the See also:

BLOOD

blood (see See also:

HARVEY, See also:

WILLIAM). His other See also:

WORKS

works include Daemonum investigatio peripatetica (1580), Quaestionum medicarum libri ii. (1593), De Metallicis (1596), and Quaestionum peripateticarum libri v. (1571).

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