258 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 



under father, a Protestant exile from France ; travelled in 

 Italy, Alps and south of France collecting Historia Plantarum, 

 published 1650, 37 years after his death (3 vols., fol.), 

 describes 5,000 plants in 40 classes the first attempt at 

 Systematic Botany (Sachs). 



147. Buxtorfius, Johannes, b. 1564 in Westphalia; 

 Orientalist ; Professor of Hebrew and Chaldaic at Basle, 

 where he died 1629. Works : Lexicon Chaldaicum Thalmudicum 

 et Rabbinkum ; Hebrew Bible with Rabbi, and Chaldc. Para- 

 phrases ; Via Massora ; Hebrew and Chaldc. Dicty. and H. 

 Grammar ; Synagoga Judaica (Colin, of Modes and Cere- 

 monies), Biblioth. Rabbinica, &c. 



180. Camerarius, Rudolf Jacob, b. at Tubingen, 1665- 

 1721. 1685, travelled two years over Europe; "the true 

 discoverer of sexuality in plants" (Sachs). 1688, Professor 

 and Director of Botanic Garden in Tubingen. 1695, suc- 

 ceeded his father as First Professor of University. Author 

 of De Sexu Plantarum Epistola (1694), R. J. Camerarii opuscula 

 Botanici Argument!, J. C. Mikan, ed. Prague, 1797. 



141. Cesalpino, Andrea (Ceesalpinus), b. at Arezzo 1519, 

 d. 1603. First physician to Clement VIII.; pupil of Ghini 

 and Professor at Pisa. Works : Speculum artis mcdica Hippo- 

 craticum ; De Plantis Libri xvi., Florence 1583, 4to. ; De 

 Metallicit, libri tres, Rome, 1596, 4to. ; Praxis universis medi- 

 cina ; Qiiastionum peripateticarum Libri quinque, Venice, 1596, 

 4to. Cesalpino's first book, De Plantis, " contains a full and 

 connected exposition of the whole of Theoretical Botany. 

 . . . The Doctrine of Metamorphosis appears in a more 

 consistent and necessary form in Cesalpino than in the 

 Botanists of the 19th Century before Darwin " (Sachs's Hitt. 

 ofBot.). 



183. Clusius, Carolus (Charles De I'Escluse), b. at Arras, 



