de Candolle, Augustin‐Pyramus

Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Published online: May 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002406

1778–1841 Swiss botanist and plant geographer who established the foundations of modern biogeography.

Keywords: botany; classification; ecology; biogeography

 Further Reading
    book Candolle AP (1804) Essai sur les propriétés médicales des plantes. Paris.
    book Candolle AP (1824–1873) Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. 17 vols. Paris: Masson.
    book Candolle AP (1827) Organographie végétable. 2 vols. Paris: chez Deferville.
    book Candolle AP (1862) Mémoires et souvenirs de Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle... écrits par lui-même et publiés par son fils, pp. xvi. 599. Genèva
    book Drouin JM (1991) L'ecologie et son Histoire. Paris: Flammarion.
    Stevens PF (1984) Hauy and A. P. Candolle: Crystallography, botanical systematics and comparative morphology. Journal for the History of Biology 17: 49–82.

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Browne, Janet(May 2001) de Candolle, Augustin‐Pyramus. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002406]