6-547: Riv may refer to: Riv., which is Augustus Quirinus Rivinus River Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Riv . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Riv&oldid=1237501709 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
12-434: A methodical description of plants), Rivinus introduced several important innovations which were later used by other botanists ( Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and Carl Linnaeus among them). He classified the plants according to the structure of the flower. Like John Ray he extensively used dichotomous keys which led first to the higher groups, which he called higher genera (genus summum) of plant orders (ordo) , and then to
18-467: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Augustus Quirinus Rivinus Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (9 December 1652 – 20 December 1723), also known as August Bachmann or A. Q. Bachmann , was a German physician and botanist who helped to develop better ways of classifying plants . Rivinus was born in Leipzig , Germany , and studied at
24-546: The University of Leipzig (1669–1671), continued his studies in the University of Helmstedt (where he received M.D. in 1676). In 1677, he started lecturing in medicine at the University of Leipzig, in 1691 appointed to two chairs, that of physiology and of botany, and made the curator of the University medical garden. In 1701, he became professor of pathology, in 1719, professor of therapeutics and permanent dean of
30-575: The Faculty of Medicine. The same year he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . Because of his interest also in astronomy, by the last decade of his life (around 1713), Rivinus was nearly completely blind from looking at sunspots. He died in Leipzig. In his Introductio generalis in rem herbariam and three books on the plant orders (which comprised but a small part of the whole projected work on
36-505: The lower genera. Along with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , Rivinus was the first to apply consistently the rule that the names of all species in a genus should start with the same word (generic name). If a genus contained just one species, the generic name would be its only name. If there were more than one species in the genus, their names should consist of the generic name followed by differentia specifica (a brief diagnostic phrase). His nomenclature differed from de Tournefort's in not using
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