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See also:CAESALPINUS (CESALPIN0), ANDREAS (1519—1603)
, See also:Italian natural philosopher, was See also:born in See also:Arezzo in See also:Tuscany in 1519
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He studied See also:anatomy and See also:medicine at the university of See also:Pisa, where he took his See also:doctor's degree in 1551, and in 1555 became See also:professor of materia medica and director of the botanical See also:garden
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Appointed physician to See also:Pope See also:Clement VIII., he removed in 1592 to See also:Rome, where he died on the 23rd of See also:February 1603
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See also:Caesalpinus was the most distinguished botanist of his See also:time
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His See also:work, De Plantis libri xvi
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(See also:Florence, 1583), was not only the source from which various subsequent writers, and especially See also:Robert See also:Morison (1620—1683) derived their ideas of botanical arrangement but it was a mine of See also:science to which See also:Linnaeus himself gratefully avowed his obligations
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Linnaeus's copy of the See also:book evinces the See also:great assiduity with which he studied it; he laboured throughout to remedy the defect of the want of synonyms, sub-joined his own generic names to nearly every See also:species, and particularly indicated the two remarkable passages where the germination of See also:plants and their sexual distinctions are explained
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Caesalpinus was also distinguished as a physiologist, and it has been claimed that he had a clear See also:idea of the circulation of the See also:blood (see See also:HARVEY, See also: |
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