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Article: Magnol, Pierre
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- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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MAGNOL, PIERRE
(
b
. Montpellier, France, 8 June 1638;
d
. Montpellier, 21 May 1715)
botany
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Magnol
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s father was an apothecary, and his mother came from a family of physicians. He was interested in botany from his youth; and in 1659, after receiving his medical degree, he decided that (as his son reports)
“
it would be very advantageous to him to make a serious study of plants
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before practicing medicine. He then began to botanize in the area around Montpellier, in Provence, and in the neighboring islands. He was aided by Laugier, a professor of medicine who was the friend of Gaston, duke of Orleans, and who possessed a great knowledge of plants. Magnol
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s ...