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Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, 2nd edn, vol. 4, pp. 300-301 (1983)
/ref> * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars altera (1691) * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars tertia (1692) * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars quarta (1696) * Almagestum Botanicum sive Phytographiæ Plukenetianæ Onomasticon Methodo Syntheticâ digestum (1696) * Almagesti botanici mantissa. Plantarum novissime detectarum ultra millenarium numerum complectens (1700) * Amaltheum botanicum. stirpium indicarum alterum copiae cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens (1705)
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Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.
Biography
Plukenet published ''Phytographia'' (London, 1691–1696) in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present. He collaborated withJohn Ray
John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after ...
in the second volume of ''Historia Plantarum'' (London, 1686–1704).
Paul Dietrich Giseke Paul Dietrich Giseke (8 December 1741 Hamburg, Germany – 26 April 1796), was a German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian.
Giseke was the son of a Hamburg merchant. He started his studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg. He joined the ...
(1741–1796) compared Plukenet's species with those of Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
in ''Index Linnaeanus'' (Hamburg, 1779).
''Pluk. mant.'', refers to the third volume (London, 1700) of the first edition of ''Historia Plantarum'', the whole of which was published 1691–1705.
Works
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* Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars prior (1690)Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S.Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, 2nd edn, vol. 4, pp. 300-301 (1983)
/ref> * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars altera (1691) * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars tertia (1692) * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars quarta (1696) * Almagestum Botanicum sive Phytographiæ Plukenetianæ Onomasticon Methodo Syntheticâ digestum (1696) * Almagesti botanici mantissa. Plantarum novissime detectarum ultra millenarium numerum complectens (1700) * Amaltheum botanicum. stirpium indicarum alterum copiae cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens (1705)
See also
*List of florilegia and botanical codices
A timeline of illustrated botanical works to 1900.
BCE
* ''Enquiry into Plants'' Theophrastus (371—287 BCE)
1–100 CE
* c. 77 ''De Materia Medica'' Dioscorides (40–90 CE)
* '' Naturalis Historiae'' Gaius Pliny the ...
References
Further reading
* '' Phytographia'', sive stirpium illustriorum et minus cognitarum icones, tabulis aeneis summa diligentia elaboratae, quarum unaquaque titulis descriptoriis ex notis suis propriis et characteristicis desumtis insignita, ab aliis ejusdem sortis facile discriminantur, by Leonard Plukenet, London: 1691–1696. * ''Codex Bentingiana'', the catalog of the garden of Hans Willem Bentinck was a source for the PhytographiaExternal links
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