1544 in science

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The year 1544 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prospero Alpini</span> Venetian physician and botanist

Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.

<i>Materia medica</i> Historical Latin term for pharmacology

Materia medica is a Latin term from the history of pharmacy for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing. The term derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD, De materia medica, 'On medical material'.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Turner (naturalist)</span> English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian (c. 1509–1568)

William Turner was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called "The father of English botany." He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner. He was an early herbalist and ornithologist, and it is in these fields that the most interest lies today. He is known as being one of the first "parson-naturalists" in England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pierre Belon</span> French traveler, naturalist, writer and diplomat (1517-1564)

Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, architecture and Egyptology. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov called him the "prophet of comparative anatomy".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leonhart Fuchs</span> German physician and botanist (1501–1566)

Leonhart Fuchs, sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as Leonhartus Fuchsius, was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, a herbal, which was first published in 1542 in Latin. It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from woodcuts. The drawings are the book's most notable advance on its predecessors. Although drawings had been used in other herbal books, Fuchs' book proved and emphasized high-quality drawings as the most telling way to specify what a plant name stands for.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Herbal</span> Book containing the names and descriptions of plants

A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them. A herbal may also classify the plants it describes, may give recipes for herbal extracts, tinctures, or potions, and sometimes include mineral and animal medicaments in addition to those obtained from plants. Herbals were often illustrated to assist plant identification.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carolus Clusius</span> Artois doctor and botanist (1526–1609)

Charles de l'Écluse,L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valerius Cordus</span> German physician, botanist, and author (1515–1544)

Valerius Cordus was a German physician, botanist and pharmacologist who authored the first pharmacopoeia North of the Alps and one of the most celebrated herbals in history. He is also widely credited with developing a method for synthesizing ether.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johann Beckmann</span> German scientific author

Johann Beckmann (1739–1811) was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rembert Dodoens</span> Flemish physician and botanist (1517–1585)

Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. The standard author abbreviation Dodoens is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johann Bauhin</span> Swiss botanist (1541–1613)

JohannBauhin was a Swiss botanist, born in Basel. He was the son of physician Jean Bauhin and the brother of physician and botanist Gaspard Bauhin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johannes Oporinus</span> Swiss humanist printer

Johannes Oporinus was a humanist printer in Basel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pietro Andrea Mattioli</span> Italian scientist

Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli was a doctor and naturalist born in Siena.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pierre Magnol</span> French botanist

Pierre Magnol was a French botanist. He was born in the city of Montpellier, where he lived and worked for most of his life. He became Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden of Montpellier and held a seat in the Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris for a short while. He was one of the innovators who devised the botanical scheme of classification. He was the first to publish the concept of plant families as they are understood today, a natural classification of groups of plants that have features in common.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Georg Joseph Kamel</span> Jesuit missionary, pharmacist, and naturalist

Georg Joseph Kamel was a Jesuit missionary, pharmacist and naturalist known for producing the first comprehensive accounts of Philippine flora and fauna and for introducing Philippine nature to the European learned world. A number of Kamel's treatises were published in the Philosophical Transactions, while his descriptions of Philippine flora appeared as an appendix to the third volume of John Ray's Historia Plantarum.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Georg Hartmann</span>

Georg Hartmann was a German engineer, instrument maker, author, printer, humanist, priest, and astronomer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adam Lonicer</span> German botanist

Adam Lonicer, Adam Lonitzer or Adamus Lonicerus was a German botanist, noted for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin's herbal.

The year 1515 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

The year 1546 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Euricius Cordus born Heinrich Ritze was a German humanist poet, physician, botanist and naturalist. He is considered one of the founders of botany in Germany.

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