Editing Prospero Alpini (section)

== Books ==
[[File:Alpino, Prospero – Historia Aegypti naturalis, 1735 – BEIC 8787780.jpg|thumb|''Historia Aegypti naturalis'', 1735]]

Alpini's best-known botanical work is ''De Plantis Aegypti liber'' (Venice, 1592).<ref name="EB1911" /> This work introduced a number of plant species previously unknown to European botanists including<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yq0YhE8RM0kC ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen''], by Helmut Genaust, year 1996. See under each species name; book is alphabetically organized.</ref> ''[[Abrus]], [[Abelmoschus]], [[Lablab]],'' and ''[[Melochia]],'' each of which are native to tropical areas and were cultivated with artificial irrigation in Egypt at the time. Other species included ''Sesban'' ''[[Sesbania sesban]]'' and the [[baobab]] tree (which he spelled ''bahobab''). Early adopters of Alpini's new botanical names included the botanists [[Carolus Clusius]] (died 1609), [[Johann Bauhin]] (died 1613), [[Caspar Bauhin]] (died 1624) and [[Johann Veslingius]] (visited Egypt in the 1620s; died 1649).<ref>E.g. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xK4o9rmGYTwC&dq=lablab&pg=PR227 Carolus Clusius year 1601 (in Latin)], [https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_pharma_res011987x02/page/n89 <!-- pg=74 --> Prospero Alpini and Johann Veslingius year 1640 (in Latin)], [https://archive.org/stream/Historiaplantar1RayJ#page/888/mode/1up John Ray year 1686 quoting the Bauhin brothers (in Latin)].</ref>

Prospero Alpini's ''{{lang|la|De Plantis Exoticis}}'' was published in 1629 after his death. It has an expansion of the material in ''{{lang|la|De Plantis Aegypti}}'' plus some other material. His ''De Plantis Aegypti liber'' is said to contain the first account of the [[coffee]] plant published in Europe although the German traveller [[Leonhard Rauwolf]] tasted coffee at [[Aleppo]] in 1573 and described its effects in 1582.<ref>{{cite book|title=Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raib inn die Morgenlaender, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang in die Morgenlaender. Fuernemlich Syriam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Asyriam, Armeniam, nicht ohne geringe Muehe und grosse gefahr selbs volbracht|author=Rauwolf, L.|year=1582|place=Laugingen}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Friis, I.|year=2015|title=Coffee and qat on the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia – botanical, ethnobotanical and commercial observations made in Yemen 1762–1763|journal=Archives of Natural History|volume=42|issue=1|pages=101–112|doi=10.3366/anh.2015.0283}}</ref> His book ''De balsamo dialogus'' (1581, 1592) was among the first books to specialize on a single group of plants. He wrote on the prognosis of diseases in his ''De praesagienda vita et morti aegrotanti'' (1601) which led [[Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel|Kurt Sprengel]] to consider him as a modern father of diagnostic science.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/b21443105_0001|title=The Healing Art. Volume I.|author=Adams, W.H. Davenport|publisher=Ward and Downey|year=1887|edition=2|place=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/b21443105_0001/page/107 107]}}</ref> Another work that took nearly a decade was  the ''De medicina methodica libri tredecim'' (1611) which sought a revival of the [[Methodic school]] of medicine.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=de Santo, Natale Gaspare|author2=Bisaccia, Carmela|author3=Ricciardi, Biagio|author4=Anastasio, Pietro|author5=Aliotta, Giovanni|author6=Ongaro, Giuseppe|year=2016|title=Disease of the kidney and of the urinary tract in De Medicina Methodica (Padua, 1611) of Prospero Alpini (1563-1616)|url=https://giornaleitalianodinefrologia.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/pdf/GIN_A33VS66_00232_29.pdf|journal=Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia|volume=33|pages=1–66}}</ref> His works ''De plantis exoticis'' and the ''Rerum Aegyptiarum libri IV'' were published posthumously.

The genus ''[[Alpinia]]'', belonging to the order [[Zingiberaceae]] (ginger family), was named after him by [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]].<ref name="EB1911"/>