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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: De Jussieu
Antoine de Jussieu wrote an account of the bark in the "Mémoires" of the Academy for 1729, and Linnæus named after him the plant Simaruba Jussiæi.
He was called to Paris by his brother Antoine, at the request of the botanist Vaillant, and after Vaillant's death in 1722 was appointed the latter's successor as professor and assistant demonstrator at the Jardin du Roi.
In 1758 Louis XV made de Jussieu superintendent of the royal garden at Trianon near Paris, in which all plants cultivated in France were to be reared.
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 De Jussieu
He was called to Paris by his brother Antoine, at the request of the botanist Vaillant, and after Vaillant's death in 1722 was appointed the latter's successor as professor and assistant demonstrator at the Jardin du Roi.
In 1758 Louis XV made de Jussieu superintendent of the royal garden at Trianon near Paris, in which all plants cultivated in France were to be reared.
De Jussieu was a thoughtful observer of nature, who behind things saw the laws and the Mind which gave the laws.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/j/jussieu,de.html   (1881 words)

  
 Antoine de Jussieu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antoine de Jussieu (July 6, 1686 - April 22, 1758) was a French naturalist.
Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traité de la theriaque (1708).
Antoine studied at the university of Montpellier, and travelled with his brother Bernard through Spain, Portugal and southern France.
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 Morphology - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While the artificial system was at the zenith of its usefulness, Bernard de Jussieu was arranging his gardens on the lines afforded by the fragmentary natural system of Linnaeus.
Its subsequent elaboration and definite establishment are due mainly to the labours of Pyrame de Candolle and Robert Brown.
The labours of Bernard and Antoine de Jussieu initiated a parallel advance in zoology, the joint memoir on the classification of mammals with which Cuvier and Geoffroy St-Hilaire almost began their career receiving its dominant impulse from the " genera " of Antoine.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Morphology   (6166 words)

  
 Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
It is this arrangement of the garden that de Jussieu refers to in the title of his
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1784) Rapport de l'un des commissaires chargés par le roi, de l'examen du magnétisme animal (Report on an assignment from the king, to examine the phenomenon of animal magnetism)
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1789) Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio Parisiensi exaratum anno M. (The genera of plants arranged in natural families, according to the method used in [the king's] gardens around Paris, since the year 1774)
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 AllRefer.com - Jussieu (Botany, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Antoine de Jussieu, 1686–1758, was director of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
Bernard de Jussieu, 1699–1777?, brother of Antoine, was director of the gardens at the Trianon, Versailles; there he arranged the plants according to his new system of classification, which he never published.
A nephew, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, 1748–1836, assisted Bernard de Jussieu, whose system of classification by natural affinities he elaborated in Genera plantarum (1789), which influenced later systems of classification.
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 Order from Chaos: Linnaeus Disposes -> Linnaeus -> Synthesizing the work of predecessors and contemporaries -> ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu developed a natural system as early as 1774, incorporating a natural classification system along with Linnaeus’ binomial nomenclature.
Jussieu evaluated and described an enormous number of plants new to Europe, brought back from voyages of exploration.
Jussieu has been called one of the most intuitive and perceptive specialists in plant classification that the world has yet produced.
huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu /HIBD/Exhibitions/OrderFromChaos/pages/02Linnaeus/sources/Jussieu,AntoineLaurentde.shtml   (104 words)

  
 Historica Botanica : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
This is a letter from the 18th century French botanist Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu in his post French Revolutionary position at the Jardin des Plantes/Museum Nationalle d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, to Jacques Molinos, the architect of the museum.
The Jussieu family were an important dynasty of botanists from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century.
Jussieu informs Molinos that the Minister of Finances would accept government "funny money" as payment for purchases, so long as it was properly "adjudicated".
historicabotanica.blogspot.com /2004/08/antoine-laurent-de-jussieu.html   (649 words)

  
 MORPHOLOGY, (Gr. yopds... - Online Information article about MORPHOLOGY, (Gr. yopds...
Bernard de Jussieu was arranging his gardens on the lines afforded by the fragmentary natural system of Linnaeus.
Antoine de Jussieu, who published diagnoses of the natural orders, so giving the system its modern character.
des connexions," by which similar parts occur everywhere in similar relative positions; and (4) the " principe du balancement des organes," upon which he founded the study of teratology, and according to which the high development of one organ is allied to diminution of another.
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 Lavoisier Antoine Laurent - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794), French chemist, usually considered the founder of modern chemistry.
Hydrogen was confused with other gases until the British chemist Henry Cavendish demonstrated in 1766 that it was evolved by the action of sulphuric...
Nitrogen was isolated by the British doctor Daniel Rutherford in 1772 and recognized as an elemental gas by the French chemist Antoine Laurent...
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 GARDENS OF KNOWLEDGE: An Exhibit of Books About Botanical Gardens, System & Systematics
Variously identified as a physician, apothecary, and quack, Hill deployed the title "Sir" by virtue of the Order of Vasa conferred upon him by the king of Sweden, and deployed his satirical pen to attack the Royal Society when he was denied membership.
Antoine, Bernard, and Laurent-Antoine de Jussieu, as well as Linnæus, all had a hand in augmenting and enriching editions of Tournefort's writings.
Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758), who had studied under Magnol and (briefly) Tournefort, served as professor at the Jardin du Roi for nearly a half-century; Antoine's brother Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1677) had responsibility there for field courses and supervision of the gardens and greenhouses themselves.
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 linneaus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His arrangement of the plants there reflected the ideas of the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus but was the beginning of a system that his nephew, Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, later developed into a new system of plant classification.
Antoine was a brother of Bernard and Joseph.
His son, Adrien-Laurent-Henri de Jussieu (1797-1853), is best known for his Embryons Monocotylédones (1844), on which he worked for more than 13 years, and Cours élémentaire de botanique (1842-44), which was translated into many languages.
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 An Annotated Bibliography of Printed Materials
Casas was one of the best known of the early commentators on the Spanish empire in Mexico, and one of the few to protest Spanish treatment of the native population.
Wherein are declared, the rare and singuler vertues of diuers Herbs, Trees, Plantes, Oyles and Stones, with their applications, as well as to the vse of Phisicke, as of Chirurgery; which being well applyed, bring such present remedie for all diseases, as may seeme altogether incredible: notwithstanding by practice found out to be true.
De Indiae Utriusque Re Naturali Et Medica Ljbrj Quatvordecjm, Quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibet.
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 Chapter 4: The Strawberry From Chile
Pelletier de Souzy, the minister of fortifications, suggested Frézier as the man to study the defense fortifications of Chile and Peru -- the mission from which Frézier would return to France with the Chilean strawberry.
Roux de Valbonne, the officer in charge of the water supply, who had kept the plants alive by watering them during the long sailing.
Antoine de Jussieu, head of the King's Garden, and true to the international spirit of eighteenth-century science, wasted no time in sending propagations of his plants abroad.
www.nal.usda.gov /pgdic/Strawberry/book/bokfour.htm   (5701 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Mémoires de Trévoux of August 1728 contain an account of the autopsy of the partially preserved bodies of three nuns who were buried in 1703, 1705, and 1707.
In a letter written by Sarrazin on 22 Sept, 1728 (which was part of the Jussieu archives and of which only an excerpt is known to us), we read that he is “sending the catalogue of the plants from the region around Quebec.
He is surely the equal of Antoine de Jussieu, the first of that family of botanists, but he cannot be considered as a rival of Tournefort, and still less of Sébastien Vaillant, whose work truly marks the beginnings of modern botany.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35213   (5213 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
His major book, De la nature, vertu et utilité des plantes (Paris, 1628), was a theoretical book about plants in general.
He also published a monograph on the causes of the plague, Traicté de la peste (Paris, 1623), and several other works on medicine, on plants, and on the collection of plants in the Jardin du Roi.
Antoine L.J. Bayle and _____ Thillaye, Biographie médicale, (Glasgow, 1906), 1, 464-5.
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 1686 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 6 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d.
April 19 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b.
November 11 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b.
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 PT's Coffee Company - Fair Trade
In the early 1700's, a coffee tree reached Paris, France and was kept in the Jar din des Plantes, bringing great celebrity to the royal botanist, Antoine de Jussieu.
De Clieu approached de Jussieu with his plan, but seeing his fame at stake, he refused.
Finally persuaded by the intervention of a beautiful lady of high rank, Chirac enabled De Clieu and his companions to steal over the walls of the Jar din des Plantes and make off with cuttings from the coffee tree.
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These layered geological formations are built by successive generations of blue green algae (cyanobacteria.) (de Duve, 1995) Lower Precambrian rocks in South Africa contain what is possibly the earliest known evidence of cellular organisms, resembling blue green algae.
De Plantis libri by Andrea Cesalpino became the greatest botanical book of the 16th century and the first general text to supersede ancient writings.
José de Acosta noted, in his Natural and Moral History, that: “The main benefit of this cacao is a beverage which they make called Chocolate, which is a crazy thing valued in that country.
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 Lancement de Mon Secret - monsecret.fr - Politique et LL, le blog de Bix
Oui, j'ai honte de ce que j'ai fait et le problème, c'est que c'est encore un sujet hyper tabou où tout le monde se permet de juger sans savoir.
Ironie de l'histoire c'est également à la Roche-sur-yon qu'un scandale touchant à ces milieux "anti-avortement" vient d'éclater, dans un foyer accueillant de jeunes mères en détresses.(permanent.nouvelobs.com/s...
Une promenade de 1893, un déjeuner de 2006
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 Hunt Institute: The Michel Adanson Library
In 1759 Adanson was working with Bernard de Jussieu (1699–1777) and Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836) on a manuscript of plant classification for use at the Garden Trianon at Versailles, the palace of Louis XV and a rich collection of plant species.
Michel Adanson was commissioned by the French Compagnie des Indes to sail to the tropics as a bookkeeping clerk; he spent the four years from 1749 to 1754 in the West African territory of Senegal.
Draft of a letter to de Condorcet defending himself against plagiarism and including a postscript that notes he is sending a copy of his Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal to de Condorcet.
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 Page B   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Antoine d Jussieu, brother of Bernard de Jussieu, edited, his chief botanical work, a large and not unimportant treatise.
Brother of Antoine and Joseph de Jussieu, "Bernard was born at Lyons, 17 August, 1699 and died at Paris, 6 November, 1777; the date of death is sometimes given as 1776.
Botta became a scholar of cuneiform, and was consul in Jerusalem in 1846 and in Syria in 1868.
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 Lefalophodon: Antoine Laurent de Jussieu   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jussieu opposed Linnaeus on the principles of classification, arguing with the elder de Candolle for a "natural system" that made use of morphological characters from all parts of the plant instead of just the reproductive organs.
Jussieu's Genera Plantarum was highly regarded and he was actively involved in French science for decades.
Jussieu briefly met William Hooker (around 1814) and Richard Owen (1831).
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 USC Hancock Collection Short Title List, 1800-1849 - J
Jussieu, Adrien de (1797-1853) De euphorbiacearum generibus medicisque...
Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de (1748-1836) Principes de la methode naturelle des vegetaux.
Earlier works of Antoine de Jussieu can be found here.
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 Escutcheons of Science - Armorial of Scientists - Numericana
De gueules, à une corne de buffle d'argent ornée [à sénestre]
D'azur, à trois casques d'or, tarés de trois-quarts.
De gueules, à un oiseau d'argent, couché dans son nid au naturel.
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 List of biologists - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (1832-1897), Portuguese naturalist
Félix de Azara (1746 - 1811), Spanish naturalist
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, (1748-1836), botanist, biologist (botanical abbr.: Juss.)
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 Darwin-L Message Log 11: 1-38 (July 1994)
The son of a pharmacist, Jussieu will receive his medical degree at Montpellier where he will study with the botanist Pierre Magnol.
Shortly after Tournefort's death, Jussieu will succeed him as professor of botany at the Jardin du Roi, and he will remain there for the rest of his life.
Jussieu will publish the first botanical description of coffee and will encourage its cultivation; he will recognize that fungi are one of the components of lichens; and he will describe the many fossil ferns found in the Lyons coal mines.
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His grandfather was Laurent de La Hire, 'peintre ordinaire du roi' and professor of painting and sculpture at the Académie Royale.
Father: Aristocrat; Michel de l'Écluse was lord of Watènes and councillor at the provincial court of Artois.
Consultant de Sa Majesté.'; His most important 'patron' (although I do not use the word within the nuclear family) was his father, whose position at the Academy undoubtedly made Louis Lémery's rise easier.
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