Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and author of the Institutes of Botany, Institutiones Rei Herbariae, 1656-1708. A Zephyr disclosing to an astonished world, the System of Tournefort. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by William Hopwood after a French portrait from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1802.
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and author of the Institutes of Botany, Institutiones Rei Herbariae, 1656-1708. A Zephyr disclosing to an astonished world, the System of Tournefort. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by William Hopwood after a French portrait from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1802.