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    Willem Piso (in Dutch Willem Pies, in Latin Gulielmus Piso, also called Guilherme Piso in Portuguese) (1611 in Leiden – 28 November 1678 in Amsterdam)...
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    Although one of the first descriptions of the disease was made in 1679 by Willem Piso, archaeological evidence suggests that yaws may have been present among...
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    areas of that part of the globe as the West Indies. Much later, in 1658, Willem Piso made reference to another species that he documented under the vulgar...
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    cuguacu ara. Marcgrave's rendering was reproduced in 1648 by his associate Willem Piso. Cuguacu ara was then adopted by John Ray in 1693. In 1774, Georges-Louis...
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    landscapes, and still lifes. He also invited naturalists Georg Marcgrave and Willem Piso to Brazil. They collected and published a vast amount of information...
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    family, Nyctaginaceae. It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso (1611–1678). Certain species in this genus are known as catchbirdtrees...
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    The neotropic cormorant was documented in 1658 by the Dutch naturalist Willem Piso after travels in Brazil. This formed the basis for the formal description...
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    November 2012. Marcgrave, Georg (1648). Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. Willem Piso. pp. 205–207. Spix, Martius (1824–25). Avium Brasiliensium Species Novae...
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  • Dezhnyov makes the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait. Willem Piso and Georg Marcgrave's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae is published in the...
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    Ceodes. Its former genus, Pisonia, is named after a Dutch scientist, Willem Piso, and umbellifera is derived from Latin umbelliferum, denoting the species'...
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    1628. The second edition of 1658, put together by Willem Piso, was expanded and included material by Piso on the Americas. Dellios, Paulette. 2008 "A lexical...
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    Aratus. The specific epithet pisonii commemorates the Dutch naturalist Willem Piso who travelled in Brazil in 1638 with Georg Marggraf. The mangrove tree...
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    World. Jefferson noted the 1648 work of scientists Georg Marcgraf and Willem Piso, whose work on natural history in Dutch Brazil resulted in the Historia...
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    company being formed to sail to the Dutch Brazil. He was accompanied by Willem Piso, a physician. He afterward entered the service of Dutch Brazil's governor...
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    corresponded with Matthew Slade and Paolo Boccone and was visited by Willem Piso, Nicolaas Tulp and Nicolaas Witsen. He showed Cosimo III de' Medici,...
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  • compendium of research on the flora and fauna of Brazil by Georg Marcgraf and Willem Piso, whose patron was Johan Maurits, governor of Dutch Brazil. Marcgraf had...
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    first had documented the fruit, such as Historia Naturalis Brasilae by Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf, Hortus Malabaricus by Hendrik van Rheede, and Medici...
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    Rembrandt, Adam and Eve (Study for Bartsch 28), PK-T-AW-1097, 1638. Willem Piso, Georg Marcgraf and Johannes de Laet, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, 1407...
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  • astronomer (died 1687) March 1 – John Pell, English mathematician (died 1685) Willem Piso, Dutch physician and naturalist (died 1678) Georg Marcgrave, German naturalist...
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  • (Naturalis historia), by Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, by Willem Piso Historia naturalis palmarum, by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius Natural...
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    Brazil a significant group of collaborators, among which we can mention Willem Piso, a doctor who came to study tropical diseases; Frans Post, famous painter...
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    scientific work on the natural history of Brazil, written by Dutch naturalist Willem Piso and containing research done by the German scientist Georg Marcgraf,...
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  • 1754) unknown – Pierre Fauchard, physician and "father of modern dentistry" (died 1761) November 28 – Willem Piso, physician and naturalist (born 1611)...
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    Brazil, such as the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae by the naturalists Willem Piso and Georg Marcgrave. The botanical garden also included a large fish...
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    others, only Frans Post and Georg Marcgraf are known today. The doctor Willem Piso, who was on the expedition team as a naturalist, later together with...
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  • Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657) 1648 Leiden Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Willem Piso 1649–59 Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp Gottorfer Codex Hans Simon Holtzbecker...
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  • Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, a book on Brazilian natural history by Willem Piso and Georg Marcgraf published in 1648 Historia naturalis palmarum, a botanical...
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  • died in 1643 in Luanda (then Dutch Angola). JPL · 11239 11240 Piso 4175 P-L Willem Piso (1610–1678), Dutch doctor of medicine, together with Georg Marcgraf...
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    ornithologies by Ulisse Aldrovandi, Pietro Olina, Georg Marcgrave and Willem Piso. Where feasible, Willughby and Ray compared the available illustrations...
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    Brazilian landscape and its inhabitants and the physician and naturopath Willem Piso and botanist Georg Marggraf who described the flora, fauna and culture...
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