‎TOURNEFORT (Joseph PITTON De)‎
‎Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris avec leur usage dans la médecine -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Imprimerie Royale, 1698, un volume in 12 relié en plein veau, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque), 28 feuillets non chiffrés, 543pp., (1pp.), 9 feuillets non chiffrés‎

Reference : 7972

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "In 1683, at the recommendation of Madame de Venelle, TOURNEFORT was chosen as substitute for Guy Fagon, professor at the Jardin du Roi in Paris. His new post required him not only to teach botany but also to enrich the holdings of live plants in the garden. He was ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST NOTED BOTANIST and had dozens of correspondents... What botany owes to TOURNEFORT is not the inventon of the iotaxonomic genus, but rather the creation of the concept of the genus in the modern sense and its first skillful application.. TOURNEFORT's conception of genus contains a fundamental new contribution that was elaborated in the work of Linnaeus, Bernard de Jussieu and Adanson... On the level of principles, TOURNEFORT contributed powerfully and brilliantly to the establishment of objectivity in taxonomy and of research methods suitable for a natural method of classification.... He payed a decisive role in the emancipation of botany from medicine...". (DSB XIII pp. 442/444)**7972/A1‎