Luca Ghini (1490 to c. 1556), an Italian scholar who was one of the founders of modern botany, of the first public botanical garden and probably of the first modern herbarium.
Keywords: history of botany; botanical garden; herbarium
Ghini, Luca
Ariane Dröscher, Free University of Bozen‐Bolzano, Bozen‐Bolzano, Italy
Published online: July 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0021210
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Figure 1. Portrait of Luca Ghini. Reproduced with permission of Biblioteca Comunale di Imola.
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| Further Reading | |
| Cristofolini G (1992) Luca Ghini a Bologna. Museologia scientifica 8: 207–221. | |
| Engelhardt DV (1995) Luca Ghini (um 1490–1556) und die Botanik des 16. Jahrhunderts. Leben, Initiativen, Kontakte, Resonanz. Medizinhistorisches Journal 30: 3–49. | |
| book Findlen P (1994) Possessing Nature. Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
| Galassi N (1992) Luca Ghini, una vita per la scienza. Museologia scientifica 8: 187–205. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
