PROSPERO See also:

• PROSPERO ALPINI (PROSPER ALPINUS)

ALPINI (PROSPER ALPINUS)  , 1553-1617, See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian physician and botanist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Marostica, in the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic of See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, on the 23rd of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1553 . In his youth he served for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in the Milanese See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, but in 1574 he went to study See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

• PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua . After taking his See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor's degree in 1578, he settled as a physician in Campo See also:

• SAN

San Pietro, a small See also:

• TOWN

town in the Paduan territory . But his tastes were botanical, and to extend his knowledge of See also:

• EXOTIC (Gr. EWTIK6s, foreign, from few, outside)

exotic See also:

• PLANTS

plants he travelled to See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt in 158o as physician to See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George Emo or Hemi, the Venetian See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul in See also:

• CAIRO
• CAIRO (Arabic Misr-al-Kahira, or simply Misr)

Cairo . In Egypt he spent three years, and from a practice in the management of date-trees, which he observed in that See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, he seems to have deduced the See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of the sexual difference of plants, which was adopted as the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the Linnaean See also:

• SYSTEM

system . He says that " the See also:

• FEMALE

female date-trees or palms do not See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit unless the branches of the male and female plants are mixed together; or, as is generally done, unless the dust found in the male sheath or male See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers is sprinkled over the female flowers." On his return, he resided for some time at See also:

• GENOA (anc. Genua, Ital. Genova, Fr. GPnes)

Genoa as physician to See also:

• ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348)

Andrea See also:

• DORIA, ANDREA (1466-156o)

Doria, and in 1593 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany at Padua, where he died on the 6th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1617 . He was succeeded in the botanical See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair by his son Alpine See also:

• ALPINI, PROSPERO (PROSPER ALPINUS)

Alpini (d . 1637) . His best-known See also:

• WORK

work is De Plantis Aegypti See also:

• LIBER

liber (Venice, 1592) . His De Medicina Egyptiorum (Venice, 1591) is said to contain the first See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee plant published in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . The genus Alpinia, belonging to the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order Zingiberaceae, was named after him by See also:

• LINNAEUS

Linnaeus .