Sunday, December 22, 2013

Book: Species muscorum frondosorum (1801)

Title: Species muscorum Frondosorum descriptae et tabulis aeneis LXXVII coloratis ilustratae: opus posthumum, Volume 1

Author: Johann Hedwig, Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen

Year: 1801 (1° edition)

Language: Latin

The founder of modern bryology, Johannes Hedwig comes into this history because of the fundamental importance of his earlier works. At present his Species Muscorum of 1801 is the starting point for the nomenclature of musci, but this work came out posthumously and contained in fact the result of a lifetime of excellent empirical and observational work.

Hedwig was able to improve his microscope and to achieve magnifications up to 290 times. The work was posthumously edited by C. F. Schwaegrichen, who succeeded Hedwig as professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens in Leipzig.
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