Joseph Pitton de Tournefort to Hans Sloane – October 20, 1698
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Date: October 20, 1698 Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: f. 140
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French
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British Library, London
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Scholarship
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Intellectual Disputes
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October 20, 1698
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a Paris
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Raymond Vieussens Andre Gundelsheimer Pierre Chirac Pouvel
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Tournefort sends Sloane two letters Chirac authored in response to Vieussens on the question of acid in the blood. Tournefort criticizes the vehemence of Chirac’s argument. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was a French botanist who developed the idea of taxonomically organizing plants according to the concept of genus. He published the famous Elements de botanique (1694) and travelled the Mediterranean and Caucuses to research their flora from 1700 to 1702 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pitton_de_Tournefort).
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