Author:Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
(1656–1708)

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Works

• Élémens de botanique, ou, Méthode pour connoître les plantes (1694)
  • Institutions Rei Herbariae (1700 & 1719), trans. by Tournefort
  • The Compleat Herbal, or, The Botanical Institutions of Mr. Tournefort, Chief Botanist to the Late French King, Carefully Translated from the Original Latin, with Large Additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and Others, the Most Celebrated Moderns, to Which Are Added, Two Alphabetical Indexes, One, Containing the Names, the Other, the Physical Vertues and Uses of the Several Plants... with a Short Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (1719), trans. by John Martyn (external scan)
• Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris... (1698)
• Relation d'un voyage du Levant... (1717)
  • A Voyage into the Levant, Perform'd by Command of the Late French King, Containing the Antient 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 Inhabiting Those Parts, and an Explanation of Variety of Medals and Antique Monuments, Illustrated with Full Descriptions and Curious Copper-Plates of Great Numbers of Uncommon Plants, Animals, &c. and Several Observations in Natural History... to Which Is Prefix'd, The Author's Life, in a Letter to M. Begon, as Also His Elogium, Pronounc'd by M. Fontenelle, before a Publick Assembly of the Academy of Sciences, Adorn'd with an Accurate Map of the Author's Travels, Not in the French Edition (1741), trans. by John Ozell (external scan)
• Traité de la matière médicale, ou, L'histoire de l'usage des médicamens, et leur analyse chymique... (1717)

Works about Tournefort

• "Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
• "Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Joseph Pitton de Tournefort," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)