Article: 1600-1754: Science and Medicine: Headline Makers
American Eras;      32 words ...1600-1754: Science and Medicine: Headline Makers John Bartram (1699-1777) Jane Colden (1724-1766) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Louis Hennepin (1640-1701?) John Josselyn (1608?-1675?) Cotton Mather (1663-1728)

Article: Botany
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ......botany as a whole. A primary example is Jane Colden (1724 – 1766), the daughter of...Colden. Tutored only by her father, Jane Colden studied and drew the plants of New York...the gardenia, which she discovered. Jane Colden was especially renowned for understanding...

Article: Women
American Eras;      700+ words ......blue dye. Perhaps the greatest female naturalist was Jane Colden of New York. Trained by her scientist father Cadwallader Colden, Jane became proficient in the Linnaean system of plant classification. She became a published author and corresponded with leading European and American scientists. ...

Article: plant classification
World Encyclopedia;      33 words ...plant classification System devised to group plants according to relationships among them. Plants are known by common names that often vary from area to area, but have only one correct scientific name. See taxonomy

Article: Adolf Engler
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      106 words ......geography, and worked out an influential system of plant classification. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin and director...The Engler and Prantl system of flowering plant classification was the principal one in use until the 1970s...

Article: domain
World Encyclopedia;      53 words ......scheme, the two subkingdoms of Prokaryote ( Archaebacteria and Eubacteria ) constitute two domains, called Archaea and Bacteria, while all other living organisms are in a third domain, eukaryotes . See also phylogenetics ; plant classification

Article: August Wilhelm Eichler
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      41 words ..., 1839-87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, after later work on it by Adolf Engler, was widely adopted by European botanists. He wrote a syllabus of pharmaceutical botany.

Article: taxonomy
World Encyclopedia;      84 words ......appear in italics ), and sometimes variety. In some categories, there are also subphyla, subfamilies, and so on. Ancient and extinct animals and plants are included in detailed classifications. See also phylogenetics ; plant classification

Article: kingdom
World Encyclopedia;      83 words ......Archaebacteria and Eubacteria , but the bacteria are so diverse that many taxonomists think they comprise more than one kingdom. Some believe that they merit the status of a new, even higher category, domains . See also eukaryote ; plant classification

Article: phylum
World Encyclopedia;      46 words ......a major group within the animal kingdom . It comprises a diverse group of organisms with a common fundamental characteristic. In plant classification, the analogous category is sometimes called ‘division’. See also taxonomy

Article: Tournefort, JosephPitton de
A Dictionary of Ecology;      88 words ......1708)A French botanist who became a professor at the Jardin du Roi in Paris and is remembered for producing a system of plant classification and nomenclature in the 1690s. His Institutiones Rei Herbariae (1700) might be described as the most important precursor...

Article: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences;      88 words ......1708) A French botanist who became a professor at the Jardin du Roi in Paris and is remembered for producing a system of plant classification and nomenclature in the 1690s. His Institutiones Rei Herbariae (1700) helped to bridge the gap between the work of Bauhin...

Article: Linnaeus
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      91 words ......Latinized form of Carl von Linné (1707–78), Swedish botanist and founder of a pioneering binomial system of plant classification according to genus and species. His international reputation was established in 1735 with the publication (in Latin...

Article: Linnaeus, Carolus
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences;      330 words ...Linnaeus, Carolus ( Carl von Linné ) (1707–78) A Swedish naturalist remembered for his large contributions to plant classification and his introduction of the binomial system of nomenclature. Trained as a botanist and physician in Uppsala, he went...