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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ( Aix-en-Provence, 5 giugno 1656 – Parigi, 28 dicembre 1708) è stato un botanico francese . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Opere. 3 Altri progetti. 4 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia. Destinato a diventare prete studiò presso i Gesuiti.
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.
Viaggiò in Europa, e, per incarico di Luigi XIV, in Oriente e in Africa. Ricordiamo tra le sue opere gli Elémens de botanique (3 voll., con 476 tavole, 1694). T. ha creato un sistema di classificazione delle piante basato sui caratteri della corolla.
6 giorni fa · Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (born June 5, 1656, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.—died Dec. 28, 1708, Paris) was a French botanist and physician, a pioneer in systematic botany, whose system of plant classification represented a major advance in his day and remains, in some respects, valid to the present time.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Botanico francese, nato ad Aix il 15 giugno 1656, morto a Parigi il 28 dicembre 1708. Il padre lo avviò alla carriera ecclesiastica che egli abbandonò alla morte di lui per dedicarsi agli studî botanici, riunendo il grande erbario che è conservato al museo di Parigi.
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), studied medicine in Montpellier around 1679 after his father died. Prior to that, he had made his first botanical expedition with Charles Plumier (1646-1706) through Provence and Savoy.
French botanist at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort followed his passion for plants and travelled throughout France, Iberia and south-eastern Europe in order to collect them. His most famous contribution was to the field of classification, his system being the first to describe the genera within it.
