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    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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    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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    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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  • vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia (Basel), 1541 Conrad Gessner, Historia animalium (Gessner book), 1551–58, 1587 Charles Estienne, Dictionarium historicum...
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    Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History...
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  • his illustrations of birds for Conrad Gessner's Historia animalium, published at Zurich in 1551–58 and 1587. Gessner acknowledges Schan in the book with...
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    earliest known picture of Jenny Haniver appeared in Konrad Gesner's Historia Animalium vol. IV in 1558. Gesner warned that these were merely disfigured rays...
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    origin of the common name is found. Conrad Gessner is given by Linnaeus as a source, but the Historia animalium mentions the Muscovy duck only in passing...
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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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  • 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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    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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    the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner of 1555. Chickens of this type were described and illustrated in the Monstrorum Historia of the Bolognese naturalist...
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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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    "playfulness of Nature". The fourth volume of Conrad Gesner's famous Historia Animalium described it, and although much of Gesner's piece was derivative or...
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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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    Bock Andrea Cesalpino Valerius Cordus Leonhart Fuchs Conrad Gessner (Historia animalium) Frederik Ruysch William Turner (Avium Praecipuarum, New Herball)...
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    Bock Andrea Cesalpino Valerius Cordus Leonhart Fuchs Conrad Gessner (Historia animalium) Frederik Ruysch William Turner (Avium Praecipuarum, New Herball)...
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    Bock Andrea Cesalpino Valerius Cordus Leonhart Fuchs Conrad Gessner (Historia animalium) Frederik Ruysch William Turner (Avium Praecipuarum, New Herball)...
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  • Bock Andrea Cesalpino Valerius Cordus Leonhart Fuchs Conrad Gessner (Historia animalium) Frederik Ruysch William Turner (Avium Praecipuarum, New Herball)...
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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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    Bock Andrea Cesalpino Valerius Cordus Leonhart Fuchs Conrad Gessner (Historia animalium) Frederik Ruysch William Turner (Avium Praecipuarum, New Herball)...
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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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  • Reformata, Leyden 1651 de Medicina Danorun Domestica, Hannover 1666 de Luce Animalium, Leyden 1647 Historiar. Anatomic. rarior. Cent. VI, 3 vol. Hannover 1654...
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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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    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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    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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    e 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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    The mandrill was first scientifically depicted in Historia animalium (1551–1558) by Conrad Gessner, who considered it a kind of hyena. The species was...
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    grouping Simia by Conrad Gessner in his 1551 work Historia Animalium, a name which he claimed was already in use by the Greeks. Gessner's Simia was subsequently...
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