Joseph Pitton de Tournefort to Hans Sloane – February 12, 1698
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Date: February 12, 1698 Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 27-28
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French
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British Library, London
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Scholarship
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Books, Botany, Critique, Intellectual Dispute
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February 12, 1698
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Paris
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John Ray Charles Plumier Etienne Francois Geoffroy Paul Hermann Vivinus
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Tournefort has sent Sloane a copy of his reply to Mr Ray’s critique. He will soon send a copy of his book on the plants of Paris. Tournefort asks Sloane to distribute copies of the letter to Ray and to tell Geoffroy where to obtain botanical books. 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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