Flora atlantica: Volume 1
Flora atlantica: Volume 1
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Summary
French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) spent two years collecting specimens in North Africa. First published in 1798–9, Flora atlantica is a Latin catalogue of these specimens. This lavishly illustrated second edition appeared in four volumes in 1800. This reissue combines the two volumes of plates into one.
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Flora atlantica: Volume 1 by Ren Desfontaines
A member, and later president, of the Academie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor Rene Louiche Desfontaines (1750 1833) spent the years 1783 5 on an expedition to North Africa. During his time in Tunisia and Algeria, he collected over a thousand plant specimens: more than three hundred genera were new to European naturalists at this time. Having succeeded Le Monnier in the chair of botany at the Jardin du Roi in 1786, Desfontaines helped found the Institut de France following the Revolution and published his two-volume Flora atlantica in Latin in 1798 9. A lavishly illustrated second edition appeared in four volumes in 1800. Combining its two volumes of plates into one, this reissue will give modern researchers an insight into the promulgation of pioneering plant science. Volume 1 contains the first thirteen classes of plants in the Linnaean system of taxonomy, from Monandria to Polyandria.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781108064323 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108064329 |
| Title | Flora atlantica: Volume 1 |
| Author | Ren? Louiche Desfontaines |
| Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Botany And Horticulture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2013-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 478 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |