Joseph Pitton de Tournefort to Hans Sloane – September 20, 1698
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Date: September 20, 1698 Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 121-122
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French
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library, Medical, Scholarship, Scientific
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Books, Chemistry
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September 20, 1698
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a Paris
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Martin Lister Thomas Isted Pierre Chirac
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Tournefort sends Sloane a number of documents on medical and botanical subjects with Mr Isted. He is preparing a work on salts and asks about the substance that gives Borax and its preparation. 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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