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Dictionary definition: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
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- A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
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Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
(1656–1708) 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 ...
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Article: Le livre des iles: Atlas at recits insulaires de la Genese a ...
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March 22, 2004 ;
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... ... Lestringant, the "insulaire" becomes a laboratory in which to examine society. This applies both to factual explorations, like Pitton de Tournefort's Relation d'un voyage du Levant of 1717 with its account of botanical discoveries, and to the satire of Swift ...
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