1519-1603 Italian physician and botanist whose attempts to create a philosophically grounded system of plant classification helped establish botany as an independent scientific discipline. His De plantis libri XVI (1583), the first textbook of botany,...

Andrea Cesalpino (Latinized as Andreas Caesalpinus) (June 6, 1519 – February 23, 1603) was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist. In his works he classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically or by...