Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578 – 1625) Flemish anatomist and botanist.
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Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578 – 1625) Flemish anatomist and botanist.
Adriaan van den Spiegel or Spigelius (1578-1625) was born in Flanders to protestant parents. His father was court surgeon to William, Prince of Orange. Adriaan studied medicine in Leiden and obtained a doctoral degree in Padua. In 1616, after a period as physician to the German-Dutch student community in Padua and as court physician in central Europe, he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery. Spiegel also studied botany, & his Isagoges in Rem Herbariam Libri Duo is an early work on plant classification.
Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus (1707-1778). who established the modern system of scientific nomenclature, held Spiegel's book in high regard & named a genus of flowering plants Spigelia in his honor. Spiegel's is the 1st book to give detailed instructions for forming a collection of dried plants.
1633 Isagoges in Rem Herbariam Libri Duo
