Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin (January 17, 1560 – December 5, 1624), was a Swiss botanist who wrote Pinax theatri botanici (1596), which described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus. Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for He also worked on human anatomical nomenclature. Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration
His brother, Johann Bauhin, or Jean Bauhin, was also a physician and botanist. Johann Bauhin, or Jean Bauhin (1541-1613 was a Swiss Botanist. Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life
Jean and Gaspard were the sons of Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), a French physician who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism. Jean Bauhin ( August 24, 1511 - January 23, 1582) was a French Physician. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Gaspard was born at Basel and studied medicine at Padua, Montpellier, and in Germany. "Basilia" redirects here For the Fly Genus, see Basilia (fly. Padua ( Padova 'padova Latin: Patavium, Padoa) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a City in the south of France. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Returning to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of doctor, and gave private lectures in botany and anatomy. Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration In 1582 he was appointed to the Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the chair of anatomy and botany. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly He was later made city physician, professor of the practice of medicine, rector of the university, and dean of his faculty.
The Pinax theatri botanici (English, Illustrated exposition of plants) is a landmark of botanical history, describing some 6,000 species and classifying them. The classification system was not particularly innovative, using traditional groups such as "trees", "shrubs", and "herbs", and using other characteristics such utilization, for instance grouping spices into the Aromata. A spice is a dried Seed, Fruit, Root, Bark or vegetative substance used in Nutritionally insignificant quantities as a Food additive He did correctly group grasses, legumes, and several others. Grass is the common word that generally describes Monocotyledonous green Plants The family Gramineae ( Poaceae) are the "true grasses" and include A legume is a Plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae or a Fruit of these specific plants His most important contribution is in the description of genera and species. He introduced many names of genera that were later adopted by Linnaeus, and remain in use. For species he carefully pruned the descriptions down to as few words as possible; in many cases a single word sufficed as description, thus giving the appearance of a two-part name. However, the single-word description was still a description intended to be diagnostic, not an arbitrarily-chosen name (in the Linnaean system, many species names honor individuals, for instance).
In addition to Pinax Theatri Botanici, Gaspard planned another work, a Theatrum Botanicum, meant to be comprised in twelve parts folio, of which he finished three; only one, however, was published (1658). He also gave a copious catalogue of the plants growing in the environs of Basel, and edited the works of Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500-1577) with considerable additions. Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli ( Matthiolus) ( 23 March 1501, Siena – 1577 Trento) was a doctor and naturalist His principal work on anatomy was Theatrum Anatomicum infinitis locis auctum (1592).
Linnaeus honored the Bauhin brothers in the genus name Bauhinia. Bauhinia is a Genus of more than 200 species of Flowering plants in the Subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large Flowering The standard author abbreviation C. This is a list of Botanists by their author abbreviation, including that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992 designed for citation in the Botanical names they have Bauhin is applied to species he described.
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- Duane Isely, One hundred and one botanists (Iowa State University Press, 1994), pp. 49-52
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