biography
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Cesalpino, Andrea
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Latin Caesalpinus
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pronunciation:
[chezalpeenoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1519–1603)
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| biography:
| Botanist, anatomist, physician, and physiologist, born in Arezzo, NC Italy. He was professor of medicine and director of the botanic garden in Pisa (1553–92), then became physician to Pope Clement VIII. He propounded a theory of the circulation of the blood that pre-dated the work of Harvey, and initiated scientific plant classification based on methods suggested by Theophrastus. He was the author of De plantis (1583), the first textbook establishing botany as a scientific subject. |
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