Pietro Arduino (18 July 1728, in

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– 13 April 1805, in

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) was an Italian botanist. The geologist

Giovanni Arduino Giovanni Arduino (16 October 1714 – 21 March 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology". Arduino was born at Caprino Veronese, Veneto. He was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classi ...

(1714–1795) was his brother, and the agriculturalist Luigi Arduino (1750–1833) was his son.

Selected works

* ** * ''Memorie di osservazioni e di sperienze sopra la cultura e gli usi di varie plante'', 1766. File:Arduino, Pietro – Animadversionum botanicarum specimen, 1759 – BEIC 6933345.jpg, ''Animadversionum botanicarum specimen'', 1759

Sources

* Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold, eds. ''Zander Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen''; 13th ed. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1984 {{DEFAULTSORT:Arduino, Pietro 18th-century Italian botanists Republic of Venice scientists 1728 births 1805 deaths