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300 Years of Growth

Origins of Botany

Who is the father of botany? People have been studying, using, naming and growing plants for as long as human beings have been in existence, but here are some who are credited with fathering and furthering this field of scientific study.

Theophrastus

Theophrastus

371-287 BC

Otto Brunfels

Otto Brunfels

1488-1534

Hieronymus Bock

Hieronymus Bock

1498-1554

Leonhart Fuchs

Leonhart Fuchs

1501-1566

Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus

1707-1778

 


Last updated 24 February 2011 by botany@tcd.ie.