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“On Plant Blindness” Theophrastus botanical illustration Pliny the Elder Pliny the Elder herbal Gaspard Bauhin Robert Hooke's drawings Nehemiah Grew Marcello Malpighi
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Theophrastus
botanical illustration
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
herbal
Gaspard Bauhin
Robert Hooke's drawings
Nehemiah Grew
Marcello Malpighi
Stephen Hales
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jeanne Baret
Jeanne Baret
French botanist and explorer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi writer and scientist
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer
German-American botanist and biologist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist and botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Edith Rebecca Saunders
British botanist and geneticist
Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist

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