Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (June 5, 1656 – December 28, 1708) was a French botanist. June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... // Events Mehmed Köprülü becomes Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... // Events March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya Kandahar conquered by Mir Wais In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague J... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...

Tournefort was born in Aix-en-Provence and studied there in the convent of the Jesuits. He was destined for the Church, but the death of his father left him free to follow his botanical inclinations. After two years collecting, he studied medicine at Montpellier, but was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in 1683. By the king's order he travelled through western Europe, particularly the Pyrenees, where he made extensive collections. Between 1700 and 1702 Tournefort travelled through the islands of Greece and visited Constantinople, the borders of the Black Sea, Armenia, and Georgia, collecting plants and undertaking other types of observations. He was accompanied by the German botanist Andreas Gundesheimer (1668-1715) and the artist Claude Aubriet (1651-1743). His description of this journey was published posthumously (Relation d'un voyage du Levant). Aix (prounounced eks), or, to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, Aix-en-Provence is a city in southern France, some 30 km north of Marseille. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Location within France Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. ... Events June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the worlds first university museum. ... Central Pyrenees. ... Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ... Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... Constantinople[1] was the name of the modern-day city of İstanbul, Turkey over the centuries that it served as the second capital of the unified Roman Empire, and after its division into East and West, of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire (from the city... Map of the Black Sea. ...

His principal work was Elémens de botanique, ou Méthode pour connoître les Plantes (1694) (the Latin translation of it Institutiones rei herbariae was published twice in 1700 and 1719), which classified plants according to the form of the corolla, but more importantly made a clear distinction between genus and species. With the concept of the genus, Tournefort was able to cluster the 6,000 known plant species into just 600 genera, making classification easier, and preparing the way for Linnaeus. A petal is one member or part of the corolla of a flower. ... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...

He was run over and killed by a carriage in Paris in the road which now bears his name (Rue de Tournefort in the 5ème arrondissement). The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 3 miles behind. ... The 5e arrondissement is one of the central arrondissements of Paris, France, located on the Left Bank. ...

His other works included De optima methodo instituenda in re herbaria (1697), and Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris (1698), an English translation of which appeared in 1732. A genus belonging to the family of the Boraginaceae was named by Linnaeus Tournefortia in his honour. Genera many, see text Boraginaceae Juss. ...

The botanist Charles Plumier had been his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages. Charles Plumier (April 20, 1646-November 20, 1704) was a French botanist, after whom the genus Plumeria (originally named Plumiera) is named. ...

The standard botanical author abbreviation Tourn. is applied to species he described. In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ...

See also

• Antoine de Jussieu
• Bernard de Jussieu
• Michel Adanson