Antoine de Jussieu
Born
in Lyon, France
July 06, 1686
Died
April 22, 1758
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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“I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world... The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me just as many volumes of botany representing in the same quarry the oldest library of the world.”
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