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jefls at the fame time. The firft public 
inftitution of this kind, in more modern 
times, was that of Padua by the Venetians, 
in the year 1533. Lucas Ghinus, the 
firft public profeffor of Botany in EuropCy 
was a ftrenuous promoter of the fame de- 
figns ; and by his influence procured the 
eftablifhment of a garden at Bologna^ in 
1547, where Turner himfelf imbibed 
much of that knowledge, which afterv/ards 
gave him fuch pre-eminence in his own 
country. 
Aniong the earlieft private gardens of the 
fame kind, was that of Euricius Cordus, 
the difciple of the venerable Leonicenus, 
and of Man ARDus, two of the firft com- 
mentators who difplayed true Botanical 
fcriticifm, on the works of the antients. 
Cord us fhewed himfelf afterwards worthy 
of fuch mafters. In his Botanologicoriy print- 
ed in 1534, he mentions his own garden, and 
that of Nordecius at CaJjeL About the 
fame time there were feveral opulent pa- 
trons of this fcience in Italy ^ Germany ^ and 
Franqe^ who followed this example. Ges- 
ner cpnftrufted a garden at Zurich in 
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