Michelangelo Tilli
Michelangelo Tilli (born April 10, 1655 in Castelfiorentino , † March 13, 1740 in Pisa ) was an Italian doctor and botanist .
Life
Michelangelo Tilli was the son of Desiderio Tilli and Lucrezia Salvadori.
In 1677 he became a doctor of medicine at the University of Pisa . He opened a practice in Florence and from 1681 worked as a doctor on the shipping routes from Florence to Mallorca and Menorca .
In 1683 he traveled to Constantinople and Adrianople to treat the son-in-law of Sultan Mehmed IV . During the return journey through the Aegean Sea , he made notes on the natural history of the Aegean Sea.
In 1685 he became professor of botany at the University of Pisa and head of the botanical garden founded by Luca Ghini . To expand his plant collection, he received many rare species from his correspondents at the Botanical Garden in Amsterdam .
On November 30, 1708 he became a member of the Royal Society .
In 1723 Michelangelo Tilli published the Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani . The list of plants cultivated in the Botanical Garden of Pisa comprises more than 4,500 entries and is dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo III. Dedicated to de Medici . 50 types of the catalog are illustrated with drawings by Cosimo Mogalli .
Dedication names
Pier Antonio Micheli named the genus Tillaea of the thick-leaf plant family (Crassulaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name. Today it is part of the genus thick leaf ( Crassula ).
Works
- Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani (1723)
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- Entry for Tilli, Michaelangelo (1655-1740) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- Fabio Garbari: The Botanical Garden of the University of Pisa (PDF; 700 kB). In: Site / Lines . Vol. 2, No. 1, 2006
Web links
- Image from the Catalogus plantarum Horti Pisani ( Memento from May 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) on alfea.it, status: May 7, 2006, in the Internet Archive at archive.org, viewed August 3, 2011 (Italian)
- Catalogus plantarum horti Pisani auctore Michaele Angelo Tilli e Castro Florentino, in Pisano athenaeo simplicium lectore ordinario et ejusdem horti custode, 1723
Individual evidence
- ^ Pier Antonio Micheli: Nova plantarum genera . Florence, 1729
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 94
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 36
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tilli, Michelangelo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian doctor and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castelfiorentino |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1740 |
| Place of death | Pisa |