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Adam Zalužanský's “De sexu plantarum” (1592): An Early Pioneering Chapter on Plant Sexuality (2013)

Funk, Holger (Author)

Archives of Natural History
Volume: 40, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 244-256

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Plants Botany Primary literature (historical sources) Plants; reproduction 16th century Renaissance Bohemia Zalužanský ze Zalužan, Adam

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský's main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter De sexu plantarum of Zalužanský's Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský's chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

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