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Théorie Élémentaire de la Botanique
Summary
Théorie Élémentaire de la Botanique is a book written by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, which was first published in 1813 and later re-issued in 1819 with a new edition. This book contributed to the field of botany by introducing the use of the term taxonomy and a new classification system for grouping plants together. This book placed emphasis on the study of evolutionary relationships in grouping plants together, rather than on shared morphological characteristics.
After studying science and law at the Geneva Academy, de Candolle began his formal botanical career when, upon the recommendation of Renè Loiche Desfontaines, de Candolle began to work at Charles Louis L’Hèritier de Brutelle’s herbarium in the summer of 1798. After establishing his first discovered genus, Senebiera, in 1799, de Candolle published his first books, Plantarum Historia Succulentarum in 1799 and Astragalogia in 1802. In 1805, Jean-Baptiste Lamark put de Candolle in charge of the publication of the third edition of Lamark’s Flore Française and writing the introduction of Principes Élémentaire de Botanique. In this introduction, de Candolle proposed a discrete model of classifying plant taxa that was opposed to the linear model of Carl Linneaus.
After being appointed as a professor of botany at the University of Montpellier in 1807 and becoming the first Chair of Botany in the medical faculty of the university, de Candolle published his book Théorie Élémentaire de la Botanique in 1813, which was later reissued in 1819.
The book was a seminal work and revolutionary contribution to the field of botanical classification and research. First published in 1813, the book provides an exhaustive collection of the principles of scientific botany, including the nomenclature, classification, and phytography.
The book is divided into three main parts, each focusing on a distinct area of botanical study:
Part I - Theory of Classifications, or Plant Taxonomy, is the first section and explores the principles of natural classification, including the use of morphological characteristics and the significance of evolutionary relationships in classifying plant species.
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