Paolo Boccone

Paolo Silvio Boccone (* April 24, 1633 in Palermo, † December 22, 1704 in Alto Fonte ) was an Italian physician and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Boccone ".

Life

Paolo Boccones botanical interest was aroused during a visit to the Botanical Gardens in Messina, the Roman doctor Pietro Castelli was founded there in 1635. With him he also studied.

He was Hofbotaniker the Tuscan Grand Duke Ferdinand II and his son Cosimo III. Boccone toured Sicily, Malta, Italy, Corsica, the Netherlands, England and Poland. At the University of Padua, he was a professor. In 1696 he became a member of the Leopoldina. In 1697 published work Museo di piante rare ... he describes rare plants from Sicily, Malta, Corsica, Piedmont and Germany. With its entry into the Cistercian Order, he took the name of Silvio. Boccone was highly regarded by his contemporaries and was in contact with many European scientists. The French botanist Charles Plumier studied with him.

Ehrentaxon

Charles Plumier named in his honor the plant genus of the plant family Bocconia the poppy family ( Papaveraceae ). Linnaeus later took the name.

Writings

• Recherches et observations naturelles. Amsterdam 1674 ( online).
• Icones plantarum & descriptiones rariorum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. e theatro Sheldoniano. Oxford 1674th Edited by Robert Morison (online).
• Museo di fisica e di esperienze variato, e decorato di naturali Osservazioni, note medicinali. Venice 1697 (online).
• Museo di piante rare della Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte, e Germania ... Venice in 1697.