Prospero Alpini
Venetian physician and botanist
Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and... Wikipedia
Born: November 23, 1553, Marostica, Italy
Died: February 6, 1617 (age 63 years), Padua, Italy
Books: The Presages of Life and Death in Diseases: In Seven Books. In which the Whole Hippocratic Method of Predicting the Various Terminations and Events of Diseases, is in a New and Accurate Manner Illustrated and Confirm'd, Not Only by the Sentiments and Opinions of the Ancient Physicians, But Also by a Long Course of Attentive Observation and Experience, The Presages of Life and Death in Diseases. in Seven Books. in Which the Whole Hippocratic Method of Predicting the Various Terminations and Events of Diseases, Is Illustrated by Prosper Alpinus. by R. James of 2; Volume 2, Historia Aegypti Naturalis Pars Prima [-secunda], Volume 2, and more
Known for: Study of date palms