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was a strictly utilitarian work: it was solely designed to facilitate plant identification in order that those plants may be put to use for their various purposes. As such, every name had to be clearly linked to one species only; there was as little ambiguity as possible. Many French, English,
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Tournefort's central work has been praised for its simplicity of organization, and for its role as a foundational document for later botanists. One biographer of Tournefort noted that the work was highly influenced by the societal thinking of the time.
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Italian, and German botanists continued to use Tournefort's system throughout the first half of the 18th century, much in the same way that later taxonomists would model their works off the system of
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of Tournefort. Where Tournefort argued that the "essence of the plant" could be tied to specific and generic names, botanists like
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The main portion of the book contains an exhaustive list of plant names, organized in a system of "
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was published in 1700 (and again in 1719), the book was originally written in French in 1694 as
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did not believe an organized science should be burdened by arbitrary nominal distinctions.
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As a part of the book's introduction, Tournefort included what may be the first recorded
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The botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort, chief botanist to the late French king
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conception of the genus, to which Ray responded twice in 1696. However, in
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in 1700, criticisms towards Ray were removed and replaced with praise.
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A Warm Scent of Books: Private Libraries at Leufstabruk and Beyond
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The book also reached outside of botanical circles. For example,
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Eléments de botanique, ou Méthode pour reconnaßtre les Plantes
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International System for Agricultural Science and Technology
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Rather than being translated from the original French work,
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Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications
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Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications
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Index

Eléments de botanique

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Botany
botanical
compendium
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
genus

Passiflora
history of botany
John Ray's
classes
Carl Linnaeus
Charles De Geer
entomologist
naturalists
John Locke
nominalism
Georges-Louis Leclerc
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Löve 1967
Jacquot 1953



von Sachs 1890
"Bibliographic information for The botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort, chief botanist to the late French king"
Leroy 1956

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