Conrad Gessner (/ˈɡɛsnər/; Latin: Conradus Gesnerus 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist...

is an encyclopedic "inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad Gessner (1516–1565). Gessner was a medical doctor and professor at the Carolinum in Zürich...

Gessner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist, bibliographer, botanist, physician and classical...

an extensive botanical encyclopedia by the Swiss natural scientist, Conrad Gessner (1516 – 1565). Although compiled between 1555 and 1565, it was not published...

first botanical garden base on Conrad Gessner's (1516–1565) private herbarium. A Gessner descendant, Johannes Gessner (1709–1790) who was a physician...

Hebrew. It listed 10,000 titles by 1,800 authors. The Swiss scholar Conrad Gessner started to compile his extensive work on Bibliotheca universalis at...

specifically brown adipose tissue—was first identified by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1551. In humans, adipose tissue is located: beneath the skin (subcutaneous...

Paracelsus Girolamo Savonarola Taccola Giorgio Vasari Andreas Vesalius Conrad Gessner List of Renaissance structures Index of Renaissance articles "CATHOLIC...

source of knowledge until zoologists in the sixteenth century, such as Conrad Gessner, all influenced by Aristotle, wrote their own studies of the subject...

word for a Eurasian coot. The name was used by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1555. The type species is the Eurasian coot. A group of coots are...

particular term, lituus alpinus, was used in 1555 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner when he published the earliest detailed description of the Alphorn:...

Physikalische Gesellschaft, originating in the sixteenth century, when Conrad Gessner and his colleagues first established it in Zürich. As such, it is one...

alpinists and the Ammonshorn 4 April 1979 50 francs 159 × 74 mm Green Conrad Gessner Eagle owl, primula, stars 4 October 1978 100 francs 170 × 78 mm Dark...

form of the card catalog. Coming from a commonplace book tradition, Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) invented his own method of organization in which the individual...

applied by prior writers, including Avicenna "Auicen", Pliny the Elder, Conrad Gessner, Rembert Dodoens, Carolus Clusius, and Matthias de l'Obel. The genus...

dates from the sixteenth century. This description by the naturalist Conrad Gessner calls the instrument a lituus alpinus and says it is "nearly eleven...

Cephalopod size, for maximum shell diameters Historia animalium by Conrad Gessner, first book with fossil illustrations The Nautilus, a malacological...

became professor of theology. In 1555 he published a new edition of Conrad Gessner's Epitome of his Bibliotheca universalis (a list of all authors who had...

German theologian Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Hall (1926–2003), American cinematographer Conrad Hilton (1887–1979)...

"cloud-topped." Numbered amongst those who have reached its summit are Conrad Gessner, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Schopenhauer (1804), Queen Victoria and...

midwinter, a season unfriendly to flowers." However, in 1559, an account by Conrad Gessner describes tulips flowering in Augsburg, Swabia in the garden of Councillor...

Institution's World Checklist of Gesneriaceae. The genus name honors Conrad Gessner. Gesneria acaulis Gesneria calycina Gesneria calycosa Gesneria christii...

princeps (first print edition) of the original Greek was published by Conrad Gessner and his cousin Andreas in 1559. Both it and the accompanying Latin translation...

to inquire into the causes of natural things." An early pioneer was Conrad Gessner, whose monumental 4,500-page encyclopedia of animals, Historia animalium...

Greek trōglodutēs meaning "cave-dweller". In 1555 the German naturalist Conrad Gessner had used the Latin name Passer troglodyte for the Eurasian wren in his...

ill omen", perhaps an owl. The word was used by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1555 and then by subsequent authors for a black-crowned night-heron...

caudatus" had been used by earlier authors such as the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1555, the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1599, and the English...

are occasionally reported in Scandinavia, having been described by Conrad Gessner and Olaus Magnus. A study based on nearly 3,000 skins of the red fox...

classifications were preceded by classifications used by bibliographers such as Conrad Gessner. The earliest library classification schemes organized books in broad...

pig was first described in the West in 1554 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner. Its binomial scientific name was first used by Erxleben in 1777; it...