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JUNGIUS, Joachim (1587-1657). Opuscula botanico-physica ex recensione et distinctione Martini Fogelii... et Ioh. Vagetii. - Giuseppe degli AROMATARI (1587-1660). Epistola de generatione plantarum ex seminibus. Edited by Johann Sebastian Albrecht. Coburg: Georg Otto, 1747.
4o (213 x 171 mm.) 3 small woodcuts on Y1r, woodcut initials and head-pieces. (Slight overall discoloration.) Later boards, title ink-lettered on spine (spine torn, slight wear to extremities); morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: 18th-century shelfmark "6453".
Second collected edition of Jungius' two important works on plant morphology, Isagogae phytoscopia (1679) and De plantis doxoscopiae physicae minores (1662). Jungius, an outstandingly brilliant mathematician, logician, physician and theoretician of science, was attracted to the natural sciences, particularly botany and chemistry, by his passion for systematization. In his botanical work he was the first to develop the ideas of Cesalpino, the pioneer of modern botany. In these two short treatises, published posthumously (as were all his works, for fear of being accused of heresy), Jungius imposed a remarkably modern system of classification on plant life. "He gave botany much of its present nomenclature and provided the clear divisions of botanical interest into plant morphology (structure), physiology, and ecology (relationships). He classified plants by a binomial system, the first being a generic term, the second a descriptive adjective. The great rarity of his writings has hindered the wider adoption of his contributions" (Dibner). His morphological system nonetheless exerted a profound influence on the subsequent course of botanical study, and was adopted by John Ray and Linnaeus. Albrecht's edition also reprints Aromatori's famous letter to Bartholomeo Nanti on the generation of plants from seeds (first printed in 1625).
RARE. Dibner, Heralds of Science 23; Pritzel 4524; Norman 1193.
4o (213 x 171 mm.) 3 small woodcuts on Y1r, woodcut initials and head-pieces. (Slight overall discoloration.) Later boards, title ink-lettered on spine (spine torn, slight wear to extremities); morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: 18th-century shelfmark "6453".
Second collected edition of Jungius' two important works on plant morphology, Isagogae phytoscopia (1679) and De plantis doxoscopiae physicae minores (1662). Jungius, an outstandingly brilliant mathematician, logician, physician and theoretician of science, was attracted to the natural sciences, particularly botany and chemistry, by his passion for systematization. In his botanical work he was the first to develop the ideas of Cesalpino, the pioneer of modern botany. In these two short treatises, published posthumously (as were all his works, for fear of being accused of heresy), Jungius imposed a remarkably modern system of classification on plant life. "He gave botany much of its present nomenclature and provided the clear divisions of botanical interest into plant morphology (structure), physiology, and ecology (relationships). He classified plants by a binomial system, the first being a generic term, the second a descriptive adjective. The great rarity of his writings has hindered the wider adoption of his contributions" (Dibner). His morphological system nonetheless exerted a profound influence on the subsequent course of botanical study, and was adopted by John Ray and Linnaeus. Albrecht's edition also reprints Aromatori's famous letter to Bartholomeo Nanti on the generation of plants from seeds (first printed in 1625).
RARE. Dibner, Heralds of Science 23; Pritzel 4524; Norman 1193.