Note 25 — Chapter II · Artificial Systems and Terminology of Organs from Cesalpino to Linnaeus. 1583-1760.
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
Tournefort was born at Aix in Provence, and received his early education in a Jesuit college. He was intended for the Church, but after his father’s death, in 1677, he was able to devote himself entirely to botany. After travelling in France and Spain, he became Professor at the Jardin des Plantes in 1683; but while thus engaged he made various journeys in Europe, and in 1700 visited Greece, Asia, and Africa—everywhere diligently collecting the plants which he afterwards described.