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Conrad Gessner
Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)
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Botany
Botany
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Epistolarum medicinalium liber quartus, denuo recusus, adjecto ineditarum ejusdem epistolarum specimine / Cura Joannis Hanharti.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.
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Date: 1823
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A cercopithecus (a long-tailed monkey) holding a stick in its right hand. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.
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Date: 1553/1560
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Reference: 40987i
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De stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra nascuntur, usitatis nomenclaturis, propriisque, differentiis, neque non temperaturis ac facultatibus, commentariorum libri tres / germanica primum lingua conscripti, nunc in latinam conversi, interprete Davide Kybero. His accesserunt ... praefationes duae altera D. Conradi Gesneri ... rei herbariae scriptorum ... catalogum complectens: altera ipsius authoris, herbariae cognitionis laudes ... continens. Praeterea ... adjectus est Benedicti Textoris Segusiani de stirpum differentiis, ex Dioscoride secundum locos communes, libellus.
Bock, Hieronymus, 1498-1554
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Date: 1552
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A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.
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Date: 1553/1560
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Reference: 40956i
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A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.
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Date: [1560?]
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Reference: 41006i
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Galen
Janus Cornarius
Hans Kaspar Wolf
Related topics
Medicine - Early works to 1800
History, 16th Century
Distillation
Botany
Zoology
Distillation
Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions - Early works to 1800
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