RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
1783 – 1840
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1820 CE
#10617
Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or natural history of the fishes inhabiting the river Ohio and its tributary streams, preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches.
In Rafinesque's polemic style the title page includes the following statement: "The art of seeing well, or of noticing and distinguishing with accuracy the objects which we perceive, is a high faculty of the mind, unf…
1828 CE–1830 CE
#1849
Medical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols.
Rafinesque was a great botanist, conchologist, archaeologist, and economist. Born in a suburb of Istanbul, he was also a world citizen and a prolific writer with 939 works to his credit. He died in extreme poverty in …
1982 CE
#11217
Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.