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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort 1700-1702



Joseph Pitton de Tournefort travelled to Crete 1700.


Joseph Pitton de Tournefort,  (b. June 5, 1656, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.—d. Dec. 28, 1708, Paris), French botanist and physician, a pioneer in systematic botany, whose system of plant classification represented a major advance in his day and remains, in some respects, valid to the present time.    

Labdanistirio from Joseph Pitton de Tournefort