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Pier Antonio Micheli

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He observed that when spores were placed on slices of melon the same type of fungi were produced that the spores came from, and from this observation he noted that fungi did not arise from
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He was a collector of plant and mineral specimens, and on one of his collecting trips, in 1736, he contracted
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Moselio Schaechter, "Pier Antonio Micheli, The father of modern mycology: A paean",
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in 1679. He taught himself Latin and began the study of plants at a young age under
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According to a short description from the libraries of Harvard University.
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Statue of Micheli among the gallery of famous Tuscans in the
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The Quest for the Invisible: Microscopy in the Enlightenment
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Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita
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Academic Press. pp. 17โ€“. 432:Frank N. Egerton (2 June 2012). 327:. Academic Press. pp. 19โ€“. 569:International Plant Names Index 234:, sculpted by Vincenzo Costiani 659:18th-century Italian botanists 599:Ottaviani, Alessandro (2010). 561: 348: 13: 1: 304: 161:, was a leading authority on 398:Marc Ratcliff (1 May 2009). 180: 27:Italian botanist (1679โ€“1737) 7: 608:, Volume 74: Messiโ€“Miraglia 503:An Introduction To Mycology 10: 675: 273: 466:George N. Agrios (2005). 121: 104: 97: 89: 73: 48: 39: 32: 300:, is named in his honor. 298:Orto Botanico di Firenze 147:Orto Botanico di Firenze 601:"MICHELI, Pier Antonio" 235: 232:Loggiato of the Uffizi 221:spontaneous generation 229: 206:Nova plantarum genera 610:(in Italian). Rome: 321:(1 September 2011). 185:Micheli was born in 153:. He discovered the 128:Pier Antonio Micheli 34:Pier Antonio Micheli 654:Italian mycologists 324:Eukaryotic Microbes 252:author abbreviation 319:Moselio Schaechter 236: 199:University of Pisa 547:978-0-300-10911-5 513:978-81-224-0089-2 479:978-0-12-044565-3 445:978-0-520-95363-5 411:978-0-7546-6150-4 377:978-1-84265-153-7 334:978-0-12-383877-3 283:called the genus 145:, curator of the 125: 124: 99:Scientific career 16:(Redirected from 666: 625: 621:978-8-81200032-6 579: 578: 574: P. 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Micheli 163:cryptogams 55:1679-12-11 553:14 August 519:14 August 485:14 August 451:14 August 417:14 August 383:14 August 367:The Fungi 340:14 August 279:In 1737, 181:Biography 159:mushrooms 18:P.Micheli 595:, 2000. 294:Florence 286:Michelia 281:Linnaeus 244:Florence 240:pleurisy 187:Florence 174:Botrytis 135:botanist 114:Mycology 63:Florence 274:Eponymy 214:lichens 132:Italian 93:Italian 618:  544:  510:  476:  442:  408:  374:  331:  263:citing 155:spores 139:botany 111:Botany 105:Fields 210:fungi 67:Italy 616:ISBN 555:2012 542:ISBN 521:2012 508:ISBN 487:2012 474:ISBN 453:2012 440:ISBN 419:2012 406:ISBN 385:2012 372:ISBN 342:2012 329:ISBN 204:His 171:and 143:Pisa 74:Died 49:Born 157:of 141:in 635:: 614:. 603:. 571:. 265:a 246:. 201:. 177:. 65:, 624:. 577:. 557:. 523:. 489:. 455:. 421:. 387:. 344:. 269:. 57:) 53:( 20:)

Index

P.Micheli

Florence
Italy
Italian
botanist
botany
Pisa
Orto Botanico di Firenze
spores
mushrooms
cryptogams
Aspergillus
Botrytis
Florence
Bruno Tozzi
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
University of Pisa
fungi
lichens
spontaneous generation

Loggiato of the Uffizi
pleurisy
Florence
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name
Linnaeus
Michelia

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