Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
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(13.VI.1723 – 8.V.1788)
Italian physician and naturalist.
Abbreviation:Scopoli (for animals)
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Publications [edit]
- Scopoli, J.A. Flora Carniolica 1760: – a flora of Carniola, Austria (present Slovenia)[1].
- De Hydroargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761) – a medical work on the symptoms of mercury poisoning among miners.
- Scopoli, J.A. Entomologia Carniolica Vienna: Trattner. 1763:- a major work on entomology containing many descriptions of new species.
- Scopoli, J.A. Joh. Ant. Scopoli der Arzneywissenschaft Doktors, Ihro ... Majest. Cameralphysici in der Bergstadt Idria ... Einleitung zur Kenntniß und Gebrauch der Foßilien, Hartknoch4031 Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und UniversitätsbibliothekRiga (1769). In German. Doctoral Thesis.
- Scopoli, J.A. 1768: Annus I. Historico-naturalis. Descriptiones avium musei proprii earumque rariorum, quas vidit in vivario Augustiss. Imperatoris, et in museo excell. comitis Francisci Annib. Turriani. Lipsiae, Chr. G. Hilscher, 1: 168 p.
- Scopoli, J.A. 1769: Annus II. Historico-naturalis. I. Iter Goriziense. II. Iter Tyrolense. III. De Cucurbita Pepone observationes. IV. Lichenis Islandici Vires medicae. Lipsiae, Chr. G. Hilscher, 2: 118 p.
- Scopoli, J.A. 1769: Annus III. Historico-naturalis. I. Solutio Quaestionis, an Medici olim Roma pulsi, ut ait Plinius. II. Luis Bovillae symptomata, causae, discrimina, remedia, praeservativa & curativa. III. Observationes alique de Caeruleo Berolinensi, aliisque Laccis. IV. Experimenta de Minera aurifera Nagyayensi. Lipsiae, Hilscher, 3: 108 + [2] p.
- Scopoli, J.A.Flora Carniolica exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano 1772: A revised second edition of the first elaborate description of the flora of Krain, Austria, undertaken when Scopoli lived in Idrija. It has 66 plates engraved by J. F. Rein after original drawings by Scopoli. Whereas the unillustrated first edition of 1760 of 600 pages had no binary names for the plant species, this edition has binary names and is written in the Linnaean tradition in all other respects as well.
- Scopoli, J.A.Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Prague. (1777) – masterwork of natural history describing world genera and species.
- Scopoli, J.A.Fundamenta Botanica Praelectionibus publicis accomodata. Papiae, S. Salvatoris (1783)- A botanical classic with ten engraved plates each depicting ten to sixteen exact drawings.
- Scopoli, J.A. & Pierre Joseph Macquer, - Dizionario di chimica del Sig. Pietro Giuseppe Macquer…Tradotto dal francese e corredato di note e di nuovi articoli... Pavia: printed at the Monastery of San Salvatore for G. Bianchi (1783–84) -The chemist Joseph Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie, the first dictionary of theoretical and general chemistry was written it in haste and concerned about his reputation, Macquer published it anonymously in 1766. Its huge success prompted the preparation of a revised second edition (1778). Then Scopoli translated and extensively augmented it. A second edition of the translated work, without fuurther additions was published in Venice in 1784-85.
- Scopoli, J.A. Deliciae Flora et Fauna Insubricae Ticini 1786–88: – an account including new descriptions of the birds and mammals collected by Pierre Sonnerat on his voyages.
