Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and author of the Institutes of Botany, Institutiones Rei Herbariae, 1656-1708. A Zephyr disclosing to an astonished world, the System of Tournefort. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by William Hopwood after a French portrait from Dr. Robert John Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1802.

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