Simon Syrenius
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Simon Syrenius (1540–1611) was a pre-Linnean Polish
Poles
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 botanist and academic. A native of Oświęcim
Oswiecim
Oświęcim is a town in the Lesser Poland province of southern Poland, situated west of Kraków, near the confluence of the rivers Vistula and Soła.- History :...

, he taught at the Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

. Anna Vasa
Anna of Finland
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served as his patron, and with her help, Syrenius published a botanic atlas in five volumes consisting of 1,540 pages describing 765 plants.

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Scans and indexes of the Zielnik from 1613 (Polish)
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