Thomas Johnson (1604/5-1644)

See also: Thomas Johnson, Johnson

Thomas Johnson is a British Botaniste , born in 1604 or 1605 with Shelby and dead the September 28th 1644 during the seat of Basing Castle.

He studies in Oxford and obtains his title of doctor in Médecine in 1643. He is Apothicaire with London starting from 1626. He exploits the Botanical garden of Snow Hill in 1629. Johnson joined the royalists during the civil war.

Johnson is in particular the author of Iter plantarum investigationis ergo susceptum has decem socilis in agrum cantianum (1629), which is regarded as the first catalog of plants of Great Britain. It also makes appear The herbal, but, General history off seedlings gathered by John Gerald… very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, citizen and apothecary off London (1633) and Mercurius botanicus, sive plantarum gratia suscepti itineris (1634).

Source

Allen G. Debus (to dir.) (1968). World Who' S Who in Science. In Biographical Dictionary off Notable Scientists from Present Antiquity to the. Marquis-Who' S Who (Chicago): xvi + 1855 p.

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