Jean Ruel
Jean Ruel or Jean of the Lane or Jean of Ruel , born about 1479 with Soissons and dead the September 24th 1537, is a Médecin and a Botaniste French.
He gives a new translation of the treaty of Dioscoride in 1516: Pedacii Dioscoridis . Its work of 1536, De Natura stirpium libri very , makes an inventory of botanical knowledge of its time but does not propose any method of classification, the species are presented shovel-mixes. Despite everything, Jean Ruel tries to give a morphological description specifies and defines to have a whole vocabulary.
Doctor of François I {{er}} and regent of the medical college of Paris, he becomes the canon of Notre-Dame after the death of his wife.
Charles Plumier (1646-1704) dedicated to him the kind Ruellia (of the family of the Acanthacée).
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