Plant Anatomy Father. Andreas Vesalius was a Belgian born anatomist and physician born in 1514 into a family of physicians. This and the 1965 revision have long been the bible for many of us Taxon May 2008.
The study of physical characteristics and external structures became known as plant morphology. Quotes tagged as father-of-plant-anatomy Showing 1-1 of 1 First by what means it is that a Plant or any Part of it comes to Grow a Seed to put forth a Root and Trunk. Together Theophrastus and Carl Linnaeus could be considered the fathers of plant anatomy.
Nehemiah Grew 1641-1712 was practicing physician and worked as the secretary of the Royal Society London.
Though it may not have been the first microscope it was a very early model. Though Julius von Sachs unified the pieces of plant physiology and put them together as a discipline. Developed the bureaucracy concept. A meatless diet was referred to as a Pythagorean diet for years up.