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Lidén Number 125
Respondent: Johan Martin Reftelins (Reftelius) (1740-1799)
Title: Reformatio Botanices, ...
Date of Defense: 18 December 1762
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-21, [2]
Lidén Title: Reformatio botanices.
Soulsby Title: Reform. bot.
Drake Title: Reformatio Botanices.
Note: P. 20 misnumbered 22 in two of four copies.
Abstract: A treatise on botanical history, divided into three periods: (1) post-Renaissance, (2) that of the pre-Linnaean systematists, and (3) under the aegis of Linnaeus. The third period received the most attention. Here Linnaeus cited (as of 1762) those of his pupils who travelled to foreign lands, and the contemporary writers who adopted his system of classification in their works.