Piso, Willem, 1611-1678
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Name (Latin)
Piso, Willem, 1611-1678
Other forms of name
Pisonis, Guilielmus, 1611-1678
Piso, Guilielmus, 1611-1678
Piso, Guilherme, 1611-1678
Date of birth
1611
Date of death
1678
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- LCCN 06-2630: His Historia natvralis Brasiliae, 1648(hdg.: Piso, Willem, 1611-1678; usage: ... Guilielmi Pisonis)
- História natural do Brasil ilustrada, 1948:t.p. (Guilherme Piso)
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Portrait of Willem Piso
Jan de Baen
, CC BY 3.0
File:Historia-Naturalis-Brasiliae.jpg
, Public domain
File:Pisonis Indiae Utriusque.jpg
Willem Piso, Public domain
File:Willem gemalt V.jpg
Jan de Baen
, CC BY 3.0
Wikipedia description:
Willem Piso (in Dutch Willem Pies, in Latin Gulielmus Piso, also called Guilherme Piso in Portuguese) (1611 in Leiden – 28 November 1678 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 – 1644, sponsored by count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and the Dutch West India Company. Piso became one of the founders of tropical medicine.
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