Pierre Belon , or Belonius ( fr. Pierre Belon ; 1517 , Seran-Fonturt , Le Mans - 1564 , Bois de Boulogne , Paris ) - French naturalist and botanist, professor at the Sorbonne , founder of comparative anatomy . Author of the writings De aquatilibus (Paris, 1553) and Histoire de la nature des oyseaux (Paris, 1555) [1] .
| Pierre Belon | |
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| fr Pierre belon | |
 Pierre Belon | |
| Date of Birth | 1517 |
| Place of Birth | Seran-Culturet , Le Mans |
| Date of death | 1564 |
| Place of death | Bois de Boulogne , Paris |
| A country |  France |
| Scientific field | comparative anatomy , botany |
| Alma mater | |
| Systematic wildlife | |
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The names of the plants described by him may be marked by the abbreviation " Belon " From the point of view of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the scientific names of plants, published before May 1, 1753, are not considered to be really published, and this reduction practically does not occur in modern scientific literature. |
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Biography
Pierre Belon studied medicine at the University of Wittenberg near Valery Kordus (circa 1540), then in Paris (1542). In 1546–49, he made a great trip to the East, visited Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and the Sinai Peninsula . He was the first of the Europeans of the new time to be inside the pyramid of Cheops , about which he left a detailed story. The illustrated description of this journey, published in Paris in 1553 , contains a lot of zoological, botanical and ethnographic information.
Belon described 113 species of fish (he considered all aquatic animals to be fish, including invertebrates and mammals). After studying the skeletons of 200 species of birds, he first established the homology (structure similarity) of the bones of various vertebrates, including humans. Belon brought the cedar to France, one of the first in Western Europe to breed plane trees and founded two botanical gardens . He was killed by gangsters in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in 1564 .
Honors
Charles Plumier named in honor of Belon the genus of plants of the Hesneriaceae family ( Gesneriaceae ) - Bellonia [2] , which Carl Linnaeus adopted later [3] [4] .
Works
- L'Histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins avec la vraie peincture et de duis et es plusieurs autres de son espèce observée paris Pierre Belon du Mans (Paris, 1551)
- De aquatilibus librio duo cum iconibus ad vivam ipsorum effigiem quoad ejus fieri potuit expressis (Paris, 1553)
- Les observations de plusieurs singularites & choses memorables, trouvees en Grece, Asie, Judee, Égypte, Arabie, & autres pays etranges, redigees en trois livres. Revues derechef, & augmentees de figures, avec une nouvelle table de toutes les matieres traitees en iceux (Paris, 1553)
- La nature et diversité des poissons, avec leurs pourtraictz représentez au plus près du naturel (Paris, 1555)
- L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux (Paris, 1555)
- Portraicts d'oyseaux, animaux, serpens, herbes, arbres, hommes et femmes d'Arabie et d'Égypte observe P. par. Belon du Mans, le tout enrichi de quatrains et no l'intelligence de leur religion
Notes
- ↑ Belon // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, S. 19.
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, S. 92.
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, S. 72.
Literature
- Belon // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Pierre Belon in the Encyclopedia of Britannica (English)