The Digital Ark :: John Philip Breyne

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

John Philip Breyne, Dr. (9 Aug 1680 - 12 Dec 1764)

German-Polish botanist and (presumably) medical doctor Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne Botanist
Relevant locations: Birth place in Danzig, Prussia
Relationships: John Philip Breyne was a son of Jacob Breyne (14 Jan 1637-25 Jan 1697)

References in Documents:

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 890. Caucalis Capensis Fumariæ folio glauco. Given me by that curious Physician and Botanist Dr. John Philip Breyne, son of the Celebrated Jacobus Breynius of Dantzick. I also remember to have seen it the last Summer in that Paradise of a Garden, the Duchess of Beaufort's at Badmington.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 3. Dr. JOANNES PHILIPPUS BREYNIUS (Son of JACOBUS BREYNIUS that late Celebrated Botanist) hath been pleased to give me several uncommon Plants, which he had collected the last Summer out of the most Curious Gardens in Holland, and he promised me greater Favours at his return to Dantzick.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 9. Ranunculus SICULUS fol. rotundo vix serrato. Ray V. 3. app. 248. R. 4. Dr John Philip Breynius gave me a sample of this which he gathered in the Physick-garden at Amsterdam, and I have figur'd it from a Design by his own hand.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 12. Argyrocome CAPENS. fol. incanis lobati. Chrysocome flore albo, foliis subrotundis auriculatis Capitis Bonæ spei. Breynij Prodr. 2do p. 33.3. Dr Breynius, Son of this celebrated Author, was pleas'd to present me with this specimen.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) Tab XLIV

[Fig: figures of objects in Table 44] To Dr JOHN PHILIP BREYNIUS at Dantzick M. D. & S. R. S. This Table is humbly Dedicated by JAM. PETIVER, Apothecary, and F. R. S.