1560-1624 Danish physiologist and botanist who described more than 6,000 medicinal plants. Encouraging both individual and collaborative efforts, he convinced the universities to work together to share discoveries in their botanical gardens. He wrote a...

Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin (January 17, 1560 – December 5, 1624), was a Swiss botanist who wrote Pinax theatri botanici (1596), which described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial...

Jean Bauhin's interest in mineral collection arose out of his interest in botany. Born to French Protestant parents, Bauhin studied under Conrad Gesner, a leading naturalist, in Zurich, Switzerland and other foreign universities. Between 1563-1568, he practiced medicine in Lyons, France, but returned to...

Once considered the frontier, this Virginia city now seems bypassed. Its Victorian mansions have been carved into apartments; the restaurants on its main street-largely luncheonettes-are closed for most of the weekend. Winchester looks untouched by yuppieism. Except for the post office, that is....