> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 181](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333320) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9099-1) LSID 9099-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607981) QID Q21607981 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schinz, Salomon (1734-1784), Swiss physician and botanist at Zürich; student of Johannes Gessner; Dr. med. Leiden 1756; professor of natural sciences at the Zürich Carolinum; practicing physician and physician to the orphanage; secretary of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Zürich 1759-1778. **Abbreviated name**: *S. Schinz* \[standard form in IPNI: *S.Schinz*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 227 (b. 26 Jan 1734, d. 26 Mai 1784); BM 4: 1835; CSP 3: 22, 367; DU 275; HU 640; NI 1761-1762; Plesch p. 399; PR 8200-8201, ed. 1: 9135-9136; Rehder 5: 768; SO 664, 675; Sotheby 679. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 214: 835. 1964. - Attinger, V. et al., eds., Dict. hist. biogr. Suisse 6: 22. 1932. - Bartlett, H.H., 55 rare books no. 49, 1949. - Rudio, F., Vierteljahrsschr. naturf. Ges. Zürich 41: 105-106. 1896 (biogr. sketch). - Schinz, H.R., Atlantis 3(9): 395-397. 1946 (portr., brief biogr. sketch). ### Publications ##### n.10.722. Anleitung zu der Pflanzenkenntniss **Title** *Anleitung zu der Pflanzenkenntniss* und derselben nützlichsten Anwendung. Mit hundert illuminierten Tafeln. Zürich (In Verlag des Waysenhauses) 1774. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Anteil. Pfl.-Kenntn.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1774 (p. 6: 25 Apr 1774)), p. \[1\]-129, chart, *pl. 1-46, 47a, 47b* (on verso of *47a*), *48-100*; handcol. wood cuts. *Copy*: G (p. 17-68 missing). NI (1761) notes that the wood cuts were originally prepared for L. Fuchs, *De historia stirpium* (Basel 1542). The old names were removed; new names are printed at the bottom of the plates. The book was printed at the Zürich orphanage and the colouring of the plates was done by the inmates. See also HU 640, and Sotheby 679. ##### n.10.723. Primae lineae botanicae **Title** Salomon Schinz, Med. Dr. *Primae lineae botanicae* ex tabulis phytographicis cl. D. Joannis Gesneri ductae. Turici \[Zürich\], (apud J. Casparum Fueslinum, filium) 1775. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Prim. lin. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1775, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-19, \[20, err.\], *pl. A-B* (handcol. copp.), chart (expl. pl.). *Copies*: BR, G, M, USDA. – German title on lower part of t.p.: Salomon Schinz, Med. Dr. *Erster Grundriss der Kräuterwissenschaft* aus den characteristischen Pflanzentabellen des Herrn D. Johannes Gessners gezeichnet. Zürich (by Johann Caspar Fuessli, Sohn) 1775. The text and plates are based on the "tabulae phytographicae" which his son Christian Salomon Schinz (1764-1847) published in 1795 and 1804, see TL-2/2003.