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Studies in the Theaceae---XVIII. The West Indian species of Laplacea

1949; Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Volume: 30; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/bhl.part.18049

2474-3283

Clarence Emmeren Kobuski,

Plant Diversity and Evolution

The genus Laplacea was named by Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth (1822) in honor of Marquis de [Pierre Simon] Laplace (1749-1827), a French mathematician and astronomer of the first order, and probably the ranking man of his time in these fields.Born the son of a small farmer in Beaumont-en-Auge in Normandy on March 28, 1749, Laplace owed his education to the interest shown in him by wealthy landowners.In 1767 he left Beaumont, where he had been teaching mathematics, and accepted the post of Professor of Mathematics at Ecole Militaire in Paris.Mecaniq 1825) is considered today a monument of mathematical genius.His complete works were published by the French government in seven volumes (1843-47), and as late as 1912 a second edition containing additional matter was published.A year earlier (1821) two other genera, Wikstroemia and Lindleya, were described by Schrader and Nees von Esenbeck respectively.