Flora Atlantica : Sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt

Name: Flora Atlantica
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108064484
Price: 10400 KES
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ISBN: 9781108064484

by Rene Louiche Desfontaines

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

ISBN-10 1108064485

ISBN-13 9781108064484

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 5th, 2013

Print length 468 Pages

Weight 1,192 grams

Dimensions 20.90 x 29.80 x 2.90 cms

Product Classification: History of science

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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.

A member, and later president, of the Académie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor René 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 2 contains classes 14 to 24 in the Linnaean system of plant taxonomy, from Didynamia to Cryptogamia.

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