About John Falconer
Lived 1450 – 1560 (aged 109–110). John Falconer was a British botanist.
John Falconer (fl. 1547) was an English merchant and botanist.
Biography Falconer appears to have been the first Englishman who possessed a series of dried plants, a method of study first practised by Luca Ghini of Bologna, the originator of botanical gardens. Falconer travelled, and from 1540 or 1541 lived at Ferrara, which he left in 1547. He was a fellow-pupil of William Turner, the father of English botany, at Bologna, and is mentioned in Turner's Herbal several times. "Maister Falkonner's Boke" is an early mention of a herbarium.
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Who was John Falconer?
English merchant and botanist
When was John Falconer born?
John Falconer was born in 1450.
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John Falconer died in 1560.
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John Falconer was a botanist.
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John Falconer was British.
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· DBpedia: John Falconer (merchant)
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