Andrea Cesalpino (* 6. June 1519 in Arezzo, Italy; "† 23 February 1603 in Rome; Latin Caesalpinus) was an Italian philosopher, Botaniker and a physiologist.

Cesapino studied philosophy, medicine and natural history at the University of Pisa, where he acquired 1551 the doctor degrees. 1555 he became a professor for medicine and director of the Botani garden of the university. Later he was a body physician of Pope Clemens VIII. and professor to the Sapienzia in Rome, where he worked up to his death.

Cesalpino occurred philosophical and medical writings for aristotelische principles and methods and looked for the influence of Galen back urge. It affected among other things the Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini. It described among other things the anatomy of the heart and 1583 the small Blutkreislauf (in Quaestionum medicarum libri II (1598, 1604).

Basis for its scientific investigations was philosophy. Therefore it went in its botanischen research beyond the individual description of the plants and looked for the general from the particular to find out the important from sinnlich the giving. It erstrebte an organization of the plants due to natural conditions and arrived by aristotelisch philosophical deductions in the end that only the Fruktifikationsorgane for the structure of a most natural system is suitable. Thus it arrived at most unnatural groups.

It in honours the plant kind Cesalpinia was designated.

Sources

• Meyers encyclopedia 1888-1889
• Jahn: History of biology. Spectrum of 2000
• Farm servant woman: History of the Botanik. Fischer 1992

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