Conrad Gessner

Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)

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  • Quatre livres des secrets de medecine et de la philosophie chimique / Faicts françois par M. Jean Liebault ... Esquels sont descrits plusieurs remedes singuliers poru toutes maladies tant interieures qu'exterieures du corps humain ... les manieres de destiller eaux, huyles, et quintes essences de toute sorte de matieres: faire les extractions, les sels artificiels, et l'or potable.
  • Above, a lynx; below, a beast with a feathery tail carrying its young on its back. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • Above, an otter eating a fish; below, a beaver. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A rhinoceros. Woodcut after A. Dürer.
  • A unicorn. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A bull. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A serpent, a winged serpent and a dragon. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • An ox. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A serpent. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

Images featuring Conrad Gessner

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  • Conrad Gesner. Line engraving, 1666.
  • Conrad Gesner. Line engraving by T. de Bry.
  • Philosophers and writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Conrad Gesner. Woodcut, 1565.
  • Conrad Gesner. Mezzotint by J. J. Haid, 1747.
  • Conrad Gesner. Process print after C. Meyer, 1662.

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