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    Historia Plantarum (The History of Plants) is a botany book by John Ray, published in 1686. Historia Plantarum was published in three volumes: vol 1 in...
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  • published in 1699 Historia Plantarum (Ray), a book by John Ray, published in 1686 Historia Plantarum Rariorum (A History of Rare Plants), a book by John Martyn...
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    Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History...
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    theology. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division...
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    published two botanical works in his lifetime, Historia plantarum et vires (1541) and the Catalogus plantarum (1542) in four languages. It was in the last...
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    ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by...
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    Wayback Machine, Ray Society, London. With introduction by William T. Stearn. ISBN 978-0-903874-00-7 Dillenius, John Jac. (1768). Historia Muscorum: A General...
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    Historia Plantarum. Dioscorides, Plinius. De Materia Medica. Cesalpino, Andrea (1583). De plantis libri XVI. Ray, John (1686). Historia Plantarum. Linnaeus...
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    Historia Plantarum can be regarded as the first botanical synthesis and textbook for modern botany. According to botanical historian Alan Morton, Ray...
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    (Vol. 1, 1680) Historia plantarum universalis oxoniensis (in Latin). Vol. 1. Oxford: Theatrum Sheldonianum. 1715. Historia plantarum universalis oxoniensis...
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    genus, Senebiera, in 1799, de Candolle published his first books, Plantarum Historia Succulentarum in 1799 and Astragalogia in 1802. In 1805, Jean-Baptiste...
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    to his Plantarum, seu, Stirpium historia of the same year. Third version 1605. l'Obel, Matthias de (1576b). Plantarum, seu, Stirpium historia. Cui annexum...
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    Philippine flora appeared as an appendix to the third volume of John Ray's Historia Plantarum. Kamel was born on 12 April 1661 in the city of Brno, Moravia (now...
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    or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals") is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in which he outlines his...
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  • Codex Witsenii Nicolaas Witsen (1641–1717) 1686–1704 London Historia plantarum generalis John Ray (1628–1705) van Huysum 1689 Paris Second Voyage Guy Tachard...
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    Narcissus poeticus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his book Species Plantarum on page 289 in 1753. Narcissus poeticus is native to central and...
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    Bauhin classification Pinax theatri botanici, 1623 John Ray classification Historia Plantarum, 1686–1704 Tournefort classification Éléments de botanique...
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    The arrangement of the species was by alphabetical order in Gessner's Historia animalium, and by arbitrary criteria in most other early works. In the...
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  • this tradition, mentioning some 500 plants and their uses in his Historia Plantarum. Several plant genera can be traced back to Theophrastus, such as...
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    Mentha fusca, sapore fervido piperis and later in his 1704 volume Historia Plantarum he called it Mentha palustris or Peper–Mint. The plant was then added...
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    plant classification heavily influenced the classificatory work of John Ray, a major seventeenth-century British naturalist. After his death, an incomplete...
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    Francis Willughby (category Card game book writers)
    specimens and information. Willughby helped Ray in collecting plants for his botanical work Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam Nascentium (the Cambridge...
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    to treat the bites of vipers, spiders and pine caterpillars in his Historia Plantarum. In Roman times, Apicius, a cookbook from the 1st century AD, describes...
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    in Insulâ Luzone Philippinarum Primariâ Nascentium In: Ray, J. (1704): Historia plantarum Book 3, Appendix p.6, item 18 Chernetskyy, M. A. (2011). "Problems...
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    using saffron. He used this technique only once. In 1702 he requested a book on Peruvian silver mines in Potosí. Like Robert Boyle and Nicolaas Hartsoeker...
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  • Natural History (with W. H. Flower), 6 vols., 12 sec. (1893–1896) A Hand-book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata (1894) Life and Rock: A Collection of...
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    geological cataclysms or become "metamorphosed" into new species. In his book Histoire naturelle des poissons, he wrote: "The species can undergo such...
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    PMID 26400778. Lazenby, Elizabeth Mary (1995) "The Historia Plantarum Generalis of John Ray: Book I – a translation and commentary.", doctoral thesis...
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  • date of a commonplace book, but his help is first acknowledged by John Ray in 1688 in the second volume of the Historia Plantarum. He was intimate with...
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    version of Boece's Historia Gentis Scotorum, as the Croniklis of Scotland, Matthias de l'Obel published Plantarum seu stirpium historia. (to left, above)...
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