Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), Italian physician and naturalist. His name is sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius.

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

IPNI standard form: Scop.; Scopoli is used in zoology.

Taxon names authored

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• 196 taxon names authored by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Publications

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1754

• Scopoli, J.A. 1754. Methodus Plantarum quam Divina Favente Clementia Decreto, Authoritate, et Consensu Illustrissimorum, Perillustrium, Magnificorum, Spectabilium & Clarissimorum Virorum Perillustris, ac Magnifici Domini Universitatis Rectoris, Illustrissimi, Magnifici, ac Clarissimi Domini Domini Inclytae Facultatis Medicae Praesidis, Perillustris Spectabilis, Clarissimi, Inclytae Facultas Medica Domini Decani, Venerabilis Domini Senioris, ... 28 pp., . J. P. van Ghelen, Viennae [Wien]. Phaidra Reference page. 

1760's

• Scopoli, J.A. 1760. Flora Carniolica exhibens plantas Carniolae indigenas et distributas in classes naturales cum differentiis specificis, synonymis recentiorum, locis natalibus, nominibus incolarum, observationibus selectis, viribus medicis. xxii + 607 pp., Viennae: Sumptibus Joannis Thomae Trattner. DOI: 10.3931/e-rara-62550 BHL Biblioteca Digital PDF. Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1761. De Hydroargyro Idriensi Tentamina
• Scopoli, J.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates: methodo Linnaeana. pp. 1–35, 1–420. Trattner, Vindobonae [Vienna]. BHL Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1769. Annus I. Historico-naturalis. Descriptiones avium musei proprii earumque rariorum, quas vidit in vivario Augustiss. Imperatoris, et in museo excel. comitis Francisci Annib. Turriani. Lipsiae [Leipzig], Chr. G. Hilscher 1: 168 p. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.44861 Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1769. Annus II. Historico-naturalis. I. Iter Goriziense. II. Iter Tyrolense. III. De Cucurbita Pepone observationes. IV. Lichenis Islandici Vires medicae. Lipsiae [Leipzig], Chr. G. Hilscher, 2: 118 p. BHL Online. PDF download. Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1769. Annus III. Historico-naturalis. I. Solutio Quaestionis, an Medici olim Roma pulsi, ut ait Plinius. II. Luis Bovillae symptomata, causae, discrimina, remedia, praeservativa & curativa. III. Observationes alique de Caeruleo Berolinensi, aliisque Laccis. IV. Experimenta de Minera aurifera Nagyayensi. Lipsiae [Leipzig], Hilscher, 3: 108 + [2] p. Online. PDF download. Reference page. 

1770's

• Scopoli, J.A. 1771–1772. Flora Carniolica exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano. A revised second edition of the first elaborate description of the flora of Krain, Austria, undertaken when Scopoli lived in Idrija. It has 66 plates engraved by J. F. Rein after original drawings by Scopoli. Whereas the unillustrated first edition of 1760 of 600 pages had no binary names for the plant species, this edition has binary names and is written in the Linnaean tradition in all other respects as well.
• Scopoli, J.A. 1771. Flora Carniolica exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano. Editio secunda aucta et reformata. Tom. I. lxxii + 448 pp., tab. 1–32, Vindobona: Impensis Ioannis Pauli Krauss. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1772. Flora Carniolica exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano. Editio secunda aucta et reformata. Tom. II. 496 pp., tab. 33–65, Vindobona: Impensis Ioannis Pauli Krauss. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1772. Observationes zoologicae. In: Annus V, Historico-naturalis. Lipsiae, pp. 70–128. BHL Reference page. 
• Scopoli, I.A. 1777. Introductio ad historiam naturalem sistens genera lapidum, plantarum, et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. 540 pp. Apud Wolfgangum Gerle, Pragae [Prague]. BHL Reference page. 

1780's

• Scopoli, J.A. 1783. Fundamenta Botanica Praelectionibus publicis accomodata. Papiae, S. Salvatoris. A botanical classic with ten engraved plates each depicting ten to sixteen exact drawings.
• Scopoli, J.A. & Pierre Joseph Macquer. Dizionario di chimica del Sig. Pietro Giuseppe Macquer…Tradotto dal francese e corredato di note e di nuovi articoli... Pavia: printed at the Monastery of San Salvatore for G. Bianchi (1783–84). The chemist Joseph Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie, the first dictionary of theoretical and general chemistry, was written it in haste. Concerned about his reputation, Macquer published it anonymously in 1766. Its huge success prompted the preparation of a revised second edition (1778). Then Scopoli translated and extensively augmented it. A second edition of the translated work, without further additions was published in Venice in 1784–85.
• Scopoli, J.A. 1786–88. Deliciae Flora et Fauna Insubricae Ticini. An account including new descriptions of the birds and mammals collected by Pierre Sonnerat on his voyages. Title page BHL

1790's

• Scopoli, J.A. 1796. Joh. Ant. Scopoli der Arzneywissenschaft Doktors, Ihro … Majest. Cameralphysici in der Bergstadt Idria … Einleitung zur Kenntniß und Gebrauch der Foßilien, Hartknoch 4031 Göttingen: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Riga. (German) Doctoral Thesis.

Links

• Taxonomic literature (TL-2) entry

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