FIISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. AQ? 
Augsburg. On account of his religious protession, 
le was obliged to leave his native place, and died. 
1596, as physician to the emperor’s army. He has 
published a very complete account of his journey*. 
Prosper Alpinus, from Marostica, near Venice, went 
on account of his love for botany to Egypt. After 
his return, he practised as physician in Venice, and 
then in Genoa; he came at last as Professor to Pa- 
dua, where he died 1617. He was universally re- 
garded as avery able man. Botany is indebted to 
him for the following writings 7. 3 
Joannes Bauhin was born at Lyons, 1541.0 He 
was a pupil of Fuchsius, left his native country, and 
remained for some time in Yverdon, a town.in the 
canton of Bern. He then went to Muempelgard, 
where he died as physician to the Duke of Wuer- 
temberg, 1613. He travelled through the greatest 
* Leonardi Rauwollf, bestallten Medici zu Augsburg, 
eigentliche Beschreibung der Rais, so er in die Morgenlaender 
vollbracht, in vier verschiedene Theile abgetheilt. Lauwin- 
gen. 1583. 4to. mit 43 Figuren von orientalischen PHanzen. 
This edition has cuts, and is rarer than the oldest, which was 
published at Francfort, 1582. We have French and English 
translations of it. In the library at Leyden the herbarium 
which he collected in his travels, consisting of 350 plants, is 
still preserved. . 
+ Prosperi Alpini de plantis Aegypti liber. Venet. 1591. 
ate. Another edition appeared there 1592. ‘There are two 
other editions, one published at Padua 1639 and 1640, and 
another at Leyden 1735. \ ‘ 
Ejusd. De plantis exoticis libri duo, Venet. 1656. ato 
Published by his son Alpinus Alpini. 
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