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Anne Pratt
b. 12-5-1806; Strood, Kent, England
d. 1893
As a self taught botantist Anne Pratt never received acclaim from the science community though as one of the best known botanical illustrators of the Victorian age, she helped popularize botany.
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Pierre-Joseph Redoute
b. 7-10-1759; Saint-Hubert, Luxembourg (now Belgium)
d. 10-20-1840; Paris
Pierre-Joseph Redoute was an official court artist of Marie Antoinette and botanist known for his paintings of flowers, particularly roses and lilies at Malmaison.
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Marie Carmichael Stopes
b. 10-15-1880; Edinburgh, Scotland
b. 10-2-1958; UK (breast cancer)
Palaeobotanist Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D., though best remembered as a pioneer for women's rights in the field of family planning, had great interest in the study of coal and went down coal mines to collect many of the specimens herself.
She also met Robert F. Scott and attempted to persuade him to let her join his Antarctica expedition. He did agree to bring back fossils and among the remains of the expedition was found a specimen of “coal with beautifully traced leaves in layers, also some excellently preserved impressions of thick stems, showing cellular structure…”.
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Theophrastus
b. c 370 BC; Greece
d. c 285 BC
Theophrastus is known as the “The Father of Taxonomy” for his work in classifying plants.
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Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
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Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
b. 3-13-1683; Gardelegen, Germany
d. 1741
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, an apothecary and botanist, is noted for his creation of the florilegium Phytanthoza iconographia, eight folio volumes with more than 1,000 hand-colored engravings of several thousand plants.
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