Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
1656–1708
French botanist. Professor of botany at the Jardin du roi, Paris, 1683. Collected plants throughout Europe and western Asia. His principal work was the Élémens de botanique (1694).
Source
DSB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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