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    Pier Antonio Micheli (11 December 1679 – 1 January 1737) was a noted Italian botanist, professor of botany in Pisa, curator of the Orto Botanico di Firenze...
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    of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence. The genus was circumscribed by Pier Antonio Micheli in Nov. Pl. Gen. on page 213 in 1729. Examples of Puccinia rusts...
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    1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli. Viewing the fungi under a microscope, Micheli was reminded of the shape of an aspergillum...
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    chosen by Luca Ghini, and rose to prominence under Cosimo III, with Pier Antonio Micheli as its director. As was typical of early European botanical gardens...
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  • playwright Ornella Micheli (sometimes credited as Donna Christie or Ornella Micheli Donati), Italian film editor Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737), Italian...
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  • caricaturist Pier Leoni (died 1128), Roman consul Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (1573–1626), Italian painter and draughtsman Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737)...
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    plasmodial slime mould within the Eumycetozoa, first described by Pier Antonio Micheli. They are widely distributed and commonly found on decaying wood...
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    mycology is considered to be the publication of Pier Antonio Micheli's 1729 work Nova plantarum genera. Micheli not only observed spores but also showed that...
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    mycologist. An abbott of the Vallombrosan Order, he was a mentor for Pier Antonio Micheli who named the plant genus Tozzia in his honour. Tozzi was born in...
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    fungus was first described scientifically in 1729, by the Italian Pier Antonio Micheli in his Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita...
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    Sphaerobolus was first described by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli (as Carpobolus) in 1729. Formerly, the genus was placed either in...
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    which he calls the spontaneous generation of insects "unlikely". Pier Antonio Micheli, c. 1729, observed that when fungal spores were placed on slices...
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    Alfieri, Gioachino Rossini, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Lorenzo Bartolini, Pier Antonio Micheli, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Giovanni Gentile, thus it is known also as...
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    the phrase "Nova genera plantarum.....". Notable were the ones by Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737), Carl Magnus Dassaw (1719–1751), Heinrich Adolph Schrader...
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    the Southern Hemisphere. The genus Suillus was first defined by Pier Antonio Micheli in his 1729 work Nova plantarum genera, however it is not valid as...
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    classical authors. The start of the modern age of mycology begins with Pier Antonio Micheli's 1737 publication of Nova plantarum genera. Published in Florence...
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    Herbarium Portatile, oder behendes Kräuter- und Gewächsbuch. In 1729, Pier Antonio Micheli thought that fungi are different from moulds, and Heinrich Friedrich...
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  • Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini Archibald Menzies Konstantin Merezhkovsky Franz Meyen Carl Anton von Meyer André Michaux Pier Antonio Micheli John Miller...
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    2014.0344. PMC 4360124. PMID 25750239. Jarvis, Charles E. (2016). "Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737) and Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)". Webbia. 71 (1): 1–24...
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    plantarum…, Paolo Boccone (1674) "Cynomorion" from Nova plantarum genera, Pier Antonio Micheli (1729) "Malteserschwamm" (with "Cytinus hypocistus" [sic], left)...
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    genus of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae. Italian botanist Pier Antonio Micheli introduced the genus in 1729 to include 14 species featuring fruit...
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    work of the Italian botanist Pier Antonio Micheli and the French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. In 1729, Micheli described genus Linagrostis, including...
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  • microscope, in 1683 describes bacteria seen with the microscope 1729; Pier Antonio Micheli observes fungal spores, conducts germination experiments 1755; Mathieu...
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    Linnaeus, with early descriptions and illustrations provided by Pier Antonio Micheli (1729) and Johann Jacob Dillenius (1741). P. platyphylloidea was...
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    move to Florence, where he joined the botanical society directed by Pier Antonio Micheli. He published observations on the cures of maladies with botanicals...
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    Pasquale Romanelli 20 Galileo Galilei Astronomer Aristodemo Costoli 21 Pier Antonio Micheli Botanist Vincenzo Consani 22 Franceso Redi Anatomist Pietro Costa...
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    botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for people, sometimes in gratitude for the financial...
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  • capacities. The genus Aspergillus was first described in 1729 by Pier Antonio Micheli. Under this genus the species Aspergillus ochraceus was discovered...
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    The earlier genus name Geaster, introduced by Italian botanist Pier Antonio Micheli in 1727 in Nova Plantarum Genera, is considered an orthographical...
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    botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for people, sometimes in gratitude for the financial...
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