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Jan 21, 1657 Mirto, Sicily, Italy Died on 19 Jan 1710 (aged 52)
Italian botanist
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About Francesco Cupani
- Francesco Cupani ( 21 January 1657, Mirto – 19 January 1710, Palermo ) was an Italian naturalist mainly interested in botany. In 1692 he became the first Director of the botanic garden at Misilmeri.
- Here the plants were classified a system taxonomy of binomial nomenclature later made standard by Carl Linnaeus.
- This work put him in contact with many botanists,for instance Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Caspar Commelin, William Sherard, James Petiver, Johann Georg Volckamer, Felice Viali (1638–1722) and Giovanni Battista Triumfetti.
