
Michel Adanson
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 218 years ago |
Born | Aix-en-Provence |
France | |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Field | Natural history |
Job | Plant Biologist |
Education | College Royal |
Jardin du Roi | |
Plessis Sorbon | |
Collège Sainte-Barbe | |
Books | Familles des Plantes |
A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the River Gambia | |
A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the River Gambia Translated from the French [i. e. from the Histoire naturelle du Sénégal]. With notes by an English gentleman, who resided some time in that country. [With a map. ]. | |
Date of birth | April 7,1727 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Author abbrev botani | Adans |
Date of died | August 3,1806 |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 630279 |
Michel Adanson Life story
Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus.