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Cesalpino, Andrea

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Cesalpino, Andrea (1519-1603)

Italian botanist who showed that plants could be and should be classified by their anatomy and structure. In De plantis (1583) Cesalpino offered the first remotely modern classification of plants. Before this plants were classed by their location - for example marsh plants, moorland plants, and even foreign plants.
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