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Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1617)

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Prospero Alpini

Venetian physician and botanist

Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of…
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November 23

Day of the year

November 23 is the 327th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 38 days remain until the end of the year.
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