Plates 3-4: Conrad Gessner, Historia Animalium. Zürich, 1558
File — Box: 1
Dates
- Creation: 1558
Creator
- From the Collection: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605? (Person)
- From the Collection: Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807 (Person)
- From the Collection: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 (Person)
- From the Collection: Collaert, Adriaen, -1618 (Person)
- From the Collection: De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth), 1792-1851 (Person)
- From the Collection: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 (Person)
- From the Collection: Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565 (Person)
- From the Collection: Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 (Person)
- From the Collection: Knorr, Georg Wolfgang, 1705-1761 (Person)
- From the Collection: Meyer, Johann Daniel, 1713- (Person)
- From the Collection: Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688 (Person)
- From the Collection: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733 (Person)
Historical Note
Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), city physician of Zürich, and the first Renaissance biologist to establish empirical observation as the basis for investigation in the biological sciences. The main labor of his life was the compilation and publication of the monumental work Historica Animalium, Zürich, 1551–1587, which attempts to classify and describe the entire animal kingdom. Extensive notes and drawings for a similar work on the plant kingdom were discovered after Gessner’s death. These were published in Nürnberg in 1753.
Extent
From the Collection: 4 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Butler University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
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Indianapolis Indiana 46208 United States
specialcollections@butler.edu