natural history of animals cover more than 4500 pages. The Historia animalium was Gessner's magnum opus, and was the most widely read of all the Renaissance...
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research and writing. Gessner compiled monumental works on bibliography (Bibliotheca universalis 1545–1549) and zoology (Historia animalium 1551–1558) and was...
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Claudius Aelianus (redirect from De Natura Animalium)
translated by Allen Rogers Benner and Francis H. Fobes (1949). Historiae animalium by Gessner Η φυσιογνωμία ενός λαού θεμελιών. Μύθοι για την Ελιά. Retrieved June...
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History of Animals (redirect from Historia animalium)
ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the...
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gather them. Historia Plantarum was written some time between c. 350 BC and c. 287 BC in ten volumes, of which nine survive. In the book, Theophrastus...
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potius absolutissima kyklopaideia (Basel), 1541 Conrad Gessner, Historia animalium (Gessner book), 1551–58, 1587 Charles Estienne, Dictionarium historicum...
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marina" – which was illustrated in Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner's book Historia animalium – based on its resemblance, strange behavior, rapid movements...
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ornithological textbooks, ultimately going back to Conrad Gessner's 1555 Historia animalium. He gave no type locality except "Europe", but his original...
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1545. Algebra. Brunfels, Otto. Kreuterbüch, 1546. Botany. Gessner, Conrad. Historia Animalium 1551-58. Zoology Bock, Hieronymus. Kreutterbuch. Strasbourg...
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Philosophie zoologique (section Book)
or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals") is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in which he outlines his...
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of birds for Conrad Gessner's Historia animalium, published at Zurich in 1551–58 and 1587. Gessner acknowledges Schan in the book with the words: Lucas...
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1697. Journey to Paris, c. 1699 Susanna Lister, Anne Lister Historia animalium by Conrad Gessner J. D. Woodley, 'Lister , Susanna (bap. 1670, d. 1738)', Oxford...
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observations, to create new encyclopedias such as Konrad Gessner's 1551 Historia Animalium. The title and the philosophical approach were Aristotelian...
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geological cataclysms or become "metamorphosed" into new species. In his book Histoire naturelle des poissons, he wrote: "The species can undergo such...
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things." An early pioneer was Conrad Gessner, whose monumental 4,500-page encyclopedia of animals, Historia animalium, was published in four volumes between...
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Conrad Gessner's "sea-satyr" or "sea-Pan" was also described as an "ichthyocentaur" or "sea-devil" in his chapter on tritons in his Historia animalium IV...
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distributing the finds from the New World. 1551. Conrad Gessner (Swiss, 1516–1565) wrote Historia animalium (Tiguri, 4 vols., 1551–1558, last volume published...
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using saffron. He used this technique only once. In 1702 he requested a book on Peruvian silver mines in Potosí. Like Robert Boyle and Nicolaas Hartsoeker...
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The arrangement of the species was by alphabetical order in Gessner's Historia animalium, and by arbitrary criteria in most other early works. In the...
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Behaim globe (c. 1490–1493). Konrad Gesner in his chapter on Triton in Historia animalium IV (1558) gave the name of "sea-Pan" or "sea-satyr" (Latin: Pan- vel...
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Natural History (with W. H. Flower), 6 vols., 12 sec. (1893–1896) A Hand-book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata (1894) Life and Rock: A Collection of...
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illustration in an appendix to his Historiae Animalium: Quadrupedes Ovipares, (1554), the picture was supplied by Gessner's Scottish correspondent Henry Sinclair...
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metord). Cephalopod size, for maximum shell diameters Historia animalium by Conrad Gessner, first book with fossil illustrations The Nautilus, a malacological...
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generations.) Historiae animalium, Liber II: De quadrupedibus oviparis. Gmelig-Nijboer, C. A. (1977). Conrad Gessner's "Historia Animalum": an Inventory...
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Francis Willughby (category Card game book writers)
his own Historia Animalium that covered that group. Ray's problems with completing this publication were much the same as with the fish book, although...
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medieval Christianity. It has its origins in Plato, Aristotle (in his Historia Animalium), Plotinus and Proclus. 1061 – Shen Kuo described the role of predatory...
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major works to be published in the area of zoology was Conrad Gessner's Historia animalium, which was published in numerous editions from 1551 to 1587....
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painter Hans Verhagen den Stommen and woodcuts from Konrad Gessner's Historia animalium. The book was an important monument of 16th-century science by providing...
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colour for camouflage. The chameleon was featured in Conrad Gessner's Historia animalium (1563), copied from De aquatilibus (1553) by Pierre Belon. In...
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The arrangement of the species was by alphabetical order in Gessner's Historia animalium, and by arbitrary criteria in most other early works. In the...
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