Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
See also: Camerarius
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (February 12th 1665, Tübingen - September 11th 1721) is a Botaniste and a German Médecin .
He becomes professor of Médecine and director of the Botanical garden of Tübingen in 1687. He is famous for his research on the reproductive role of the bodies of the vegetable .
Other authors before him had been interested in sexuality at the plants like Pline, Aristote or its contemporary John Ray. But these observations had been only episodical or bearing on only one species.
Camerarius carries out methodical series of experiments in order to determine with precision the seat of the reproduction that it is at species Hermaphrodite S (with the suppression total or left the cheesecloth S) or Dioïque S (with the insulation of the individuals). These experiments enable him to understand that cheesecloths constitute the male sexual organ and the Pistil the female body, any deterioration of one of these bodies preventing the reproduction. It puts in parallel the reproduction in the animals with those of the plants (assertion which will start a real scandal, including near certain botanists).
Partial bibliography
- De Sexu Plantarum Epistola (1694) where it establishes the distinction of the sexes, on which Carl von Linné established its classification later.
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