Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Herman Boerhaave, John Robinson, Jacobus Arminius, Gerrit Dou, Frans Van Mieris the Elder, Carolus Clusius, Rembert Dodoens, Daniel Heinsius, Joannes de Laet, Jan Steen, Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Willebrord Snellius, Johannes Cocceius, Pieter de Ring, Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Franois Hemsterhuis, Ludolph Van Ceulen, Jean Luzac, Willem Van Mieris. Excerpt: Charles de l'cluse Charles de l'cluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (Arras, February 19, 1526 Leiden, April 4, 1609), seigneur de Watnes, was a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists . Nymphaea from Rariorum plantarum historia He studied at Montpellier with the famous medical professor Guillaume Rondelet, though he never practiced medicine. In 1573 he was appointed prefect of the imperial medical garden in Vienna by Maximilian II and made Gentleman of the Imperial Chamber, but he was discharged from the imperial court shortly after the accession of Rudolf II in 1576. After leaving Vienna in the late 1580s he established himself in Frankfurt am Main, before his appointment as professor at the University of Leiden in October 1593. He helped create one of the earliest formal botanical gardens of Europe at Leyden, the Hortus Academicus, and his detailed planting lists have made it possible to recreate his garden near where it originally lay. In the history of gardening he is remembered not only for his scholarship but also for his observations on tulips "breaking" a phenomenon discovered in the late 19th century to be due to a virus causing the many different flamed and feathered varieties, which led to the speculative tulip mania of the 1630s. Clusius laid the foundations of Dutch tulip breeding and the bulb industry today. His...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Burials at the Pieterskerk, Leiden (Netherlands): Herman Boerhaave, John Robinson, Jacobus Arminius, Gerrit Dou, Frans Van Mieris the Elder. To get started finding Burials at the Pieterskerk, Leiden (Netherlands): Herman Boerhaave, John Robinson, Jacobus Arminius, Gerrit Dou, Frans Van Mieris the Elder, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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82
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155330293
Burials at the Pieterskerk, Leiden (Netherlands): Herman Boerhaave, John Robinson, Jacobus Arminius, Gerrit Dou, Frans Van Mieris the Elder
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Herman Boerhaave, John Robinson, Jacobus Arminius, Gerrit Dou, Frans Van Mieris the Elder, Carolus Clusius, Rembert Dodoens, Daniel Heinsius, Joannes de Laet, Jan Steen, Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Willebrord Snellius, Johannes Cocceius, Pieter de Ring, Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Franois Hemsterhuis, Ludolph Van Ceulen, Jean Luzac, Willem Van Mieris. Excerpt: Charles de l'cluse Charles de l'cluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (Arras, February 19, 1526 Leiden, April 4, 1609), seigneur de Watnes, was a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists . Nymphaea from Rariorum plantarum historia He studied at Montpellier with the famous medical professor Guillaume Rondelet, though he never practiced medicine. In 1573 he was appointed prefect of the imperial medical garden in Vienna by Maximilian II and made Gentleman of the Imperial Chamber, but he was discharged from the imperial court shortly after the accession of Rudolf II in 1576. After leaving Vienna in the late 1580s he established himself in Frankfurt am Main, before his appointment as professor at the University of Leiden in October 1593. He helped create one of the earliest formal botanical gardens of Europe at Leyden, the Hortus Academicus, and his detailed planting lists have made it possible to recreate his garden near where it originally lay. In the history of gardening he is remembered not only for his scholarship but also for his observations on tulips "breaking" a phenomenon discovered in the late 19th century to be due to a virus causing the many different flamed and feathered varieties, which led to the speculative tulip mania of the 1630s. Clusius laid the foundations of Dutch tulip breeding and the bulb industry today. His...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Burials at the Pieterskerk, Leiden (Netherlands): Herman Boerhaave, John Robinson, Jacobus Arminius, Gerrit Dou, Frans Van Mieris the Elder. To get started finding Burials at the Pieterskerk, Leiden (Netherlands): Herman Boerhaave, John Robinson, Jacobus Arminius, Gerrit Dou, Frans Van Mieris the Elder, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.