Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy”.
Artist: Bertonnier
Date:1833
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands
Artist: J.W. des Hauvents
Date:
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Price £28.00
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Ambroise Paré was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds
Artist: Durupt
Date:
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Price £28.00
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. The botanist Charles Plumier had been his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.
Artist: Pigeot
Date:
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Price £28.00
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French banker, insurer and industrialist
Artist: Blanchard
Date:
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Price £28.00
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Olivier de Serres was a French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d’Agriculture was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century.
Artist: Dequevillier
Date:
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Gustav, Count of Schlabrendorf, described in various sources as a “citizen of the world”, was a political author and an enlightenment thinker.
Artist: Goutiere
Date:
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Price £28.00
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Bavarian merchant and philantropist.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Durupt
Date:
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Price £28.00
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Viscountess Dumoulin, a distant cousin (through her mother) of de la Fontaine, was instrumental in bringing the Brothers of the Christian Schools to Château-Thierry in 1831. A school was opened on Rue de la Madeleine with the approval of Mayor Poan de Sapincourt and the prefect. It was a three-classroom school with three brothers and a headmaster. The Viscountess was born in 1755 and died in 1831 in Château-Thierry.
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Durupt
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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A quasi-legendary medieval figure credited with founding or restoring the Acadèmia dels Jòcs Florals or Academy of the Floral Games. She is supposed to have left a legacy to fund awards in the form of gold and silver flowers that the city would award annually to the best poets.
Artist: Richomme
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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