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A voyage into the Levant ... Containing the ancient and modern state of the islands of the Archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. With plans of the principal towns and places of note; an account of the genius, manners, trade, and religion of the respective people ... and an explanation of variety of medals and antique monuments ... / By M. Tournefort ... To which is prefixed the author's life, in a letter to M. Begon [by P.J.B. Lauthier]: ... as also his elogium, pronounc'd by M. Fontenelle ... Adorn'd with an accurate map of the author's travels, not in the French edition.

  • Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.
Date:
1741
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Credit: A voyage into the Levant ... Containing the ancient and modern state of the islands of the Archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. With plans of the principal towns and places of note; an account of the genius, manners, trade, and religion of the respective people ... and an explanation of variety of medals and antique monuments ... / By M. Tournefort ... To which is prefixed the author's life, in a letter to M. Begon [by P.J.B. Lauthier]: ... as also his elogium, pronounc'd by M. Fontenelle ... Adorn'd with an accurate map of the author's travels, not in the French edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the Reputation and Memory of Great Men: witnefs their Portraits, with which you adorn your rare well-chofen Library ; witnefs too that noble Hiftory of the Great Men of the laft Age, for which the World is indebted purely to your Love of them. No doubt there will be found excèllent Pens, that fhall make Elogiums truly worthy of MI. Tournefort : But, Sir, in‘executing this melancholy Duty which you have engaged me to perform to him, well fatisfied that only fpeak the Language of the Heart, I fhall be far from envying Them, on this occafion, their Productions of the Head. As I cannot vie with them in Sublimity of Thought, nor Politenefs of Expreffion, my Endeavours fhall only be to reprefent with exactnefs fuch Facts as I can call to mind. A UE Fofeph Pitton de Tournefort was born at Aix in Provence. He had not only the Birth, but Senti- ments and Virtues of a Gentleman: Advantages : which he was-contented to poffefs, without being oftentatious of them. # From his earlieft Infancy, he felt that Paffion for Plants, which afterwards caus’d him to carry the. Knowledge of them to fo high a pitch. His innate Genius was his firft Mafter; impatient to break out, it foon knew how to difcover it felf. He was.con- fefs’d a Botanift, even before he himfelf .could know what the Word meant. | RATE Oftentimes would he fteal away from his Play- fellows, to purfue his Inquiries after Vegetables. Fis frequent Sallies from his Father’s Houfe were only to go a fimpling ; for which he was fometimes a little too feverely punifhed, through their Igno- rance who knew no better: fuch however was the Prelude of his Botanick Excurfions. He was not near fo much concerned at. thefe Chaftifements, as he was pleafed when he met with a Vegetable that was new. to him, From hence ’tis plain, the E- Woe ducation