Michael Bernhard Valentini is a Médecin and a Collection German nor , born in 1657 and died in 1729.

After obtaining its title of doctor in 1686 with Giessen, he becomes professor of Médecine in this same city and constitutes important a Cabinet of curiosities. He is the personal doctor of the margrave of Assia. He is the author of Museum Museorum , first study of the collections of Europe. He makes appear in 1720 a work of Comparative anatomy of Vertébré S. He is member of the Royal Society the November 10th 1715, of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and of the Academy of Berlin.

List partial of the publications

• 1714 : Museum Museorum .
• 1719 : Viridarium reformatum, seu regnum vegetabile, Das STI Neu-eingerichtetes und vollständiges Kräuter-buch, Worinnen auff noch nicht geschehene Weise, Derer Vegetabilien als Kräutern, Sträuchen, Bäumen, Bluhmen und anderer Erd-Gewachsen Art, Kraft und Würckung dergestalt beschreiben werden, dass man sharps Werck statt einer Botanischen Bibliothec haben, jedes Kraut zu seiner rechten Haupt-Art bringen, auch dessen Nutzen in der Artzney deutlich und umständlich finden… (Anton Heinscheidt, Francfort-sur-le-Main). - These two volumes contains many illustrated boards of botany drawn from various works for the Florilegium novum and from Florilegium renovatum and auctum of Johannes Theodorus de Bry (1561-1623) and other authors.
• 1720 : Amphitheatrum zootomicum (Francfort-sur-le-Main).

Source

• Robert Mortimer Gascoigne (1987). has Chronology off the History off Science, 1450-1900 , Garland (New York): xi + 585 p.