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Pyramus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Pyramus a Babylonian youth, lover of Thisbe...by a lioness coming from its kill, and Pyramus, seeing her bloodstained cloak and supposing...sign of mourning for them. The story of Pyramus and Thisbe is the subject of the mechanicals...
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Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de (1806–93) The son of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle , who, in 1842, succeeded his father as professor of natural history at the University of Geneva and completed his father's work by publishing...
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Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de (1778–1841) A Swiss botanist who studied in Geneva and settled in Paris in 1796. At the request of the French...
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Candolle, Augustin-Pyramus De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Candolle, Augustin-Pyramus De ( b . Republic of Geneva, 4 February 1778; d . Geneva, 9 September 1841), botany, agronomy . The son of Augustin de Candolle...
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Thisbe
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Thisbe in Roman mythology, a Babylonian girl, lover of Pyramus .
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Candolle, AlphonseLouisPierrePyramus de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
Candolle, AlphonseLouisPierrePyramus de (1806–93)The son of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle , who, in 1842, succeeded his father as professor of natural history at the University of Geneva and completed his...
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Candolle, Alphonse De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Switzerland, 4 April 1893), botany, phytogeography . Alphonse de Candolle was the son of the Genevan botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle and Fanny Torros. He spent the first years of his life at Paris, then at Montpellier, where his father taught...
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Mociño, José Mariano
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...French (1812), he carried a part of the material with him to Montpellier, where he worked with the botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle. Most of the manuscripts of the Flora Mexicana were lost before they came into Candolle ’ s hands...
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Cels, Jacques-Philippe-Martin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...x2019; H é ritier, in the Histoire naturelle des plantes grasses (1799) and the Astragologia (1802) of Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle, and in the Liliac é es (1802 – 1816) of P. J. Redout é . Cels applied himself particularly...
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Prevost, Jean-Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...naturalists of Geneva: Fran ς ois and Jean-Pierre Huber, Jean Senebier, Jean-Pierre Vaucher, and Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle. Like many of them, he began theological studies and later turned to medicine. In 1814 he went to Paris, where...
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