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    Gessner, Konrad Gesner, Conradi Gesneri, Conrad Geßner, Conrad Gesner, Conrad von Gesner, Cuonrat and Cunrat. The single-"s" Gesner derives incorrectly...
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  • and surveyor in Oregon Conrad Gesner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist, and botanical reference for Gesner Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761), German classical...
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    Archived from the original on April 16, 2022. Retrieved April 16, 2022. Conrad Gesner (6 September 2008). Historiae animalium. Archived from the original...
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    or 1559. It was published at the instigation of Conrad Gesner and printed by his cousin Andreas Gesner at Zürich. The book was bound with a work by Marinus...
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    in reference to actual rats, but for persons who lived off others. Conrad Gesner in Historia animalium (1551–58) stated: "Some would have it that the...
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    of Nature". The fourth volume of Conrad Gesner's famous Historia Animalium described it, and although much of Gesner's piece was derivative or even copied...
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  • Conrad Herbert Gesner (August 30, 1901 - September 1, 1993) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota from 1953 until his retirement in 1970...
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    instruments, such as the horn, the crumhorn, or the cornett. Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description...
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    Europe from Constantinople in 1554. It was first described in 1559 by Conrad Gesner. When the tulip originally arrived in Europe from the Ottoman Empire...
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    Medieval times with mentions by writers like Georgius Agricola and Conrad Gesner. These led to a widespread association that climaxed with paleontologist...
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    "Original watercolours donated by Cornelius Sittardus to Conrad Gesner, and published by Gesner in his (1558–1670) works on aquatic animals". Zoologische...
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  • descriptions and illustrations of Scottish animals to the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner for inclusion in his Historiae Animalium. These included the solan goose...
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    but Thevet was the first Frenchman to write about it. Swiss doctor Conrad Gesner in 1563 reported that chewing or smoking a tobacco leaf "has a wonderful...
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    species known as "crossbills", which was assigned by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner because of the obvious similarities. Dauer, W.; Burke, RE; Greene, P;...
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    Central America. The name Pinguicula is derived from a term coined by Conrad Gesner, who in his 1561 work entitled Horti Germaniae commented on the glistening...
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    Latin gargala "tracheal artery". The English usage owes its origins to Conrad Gesner who used the Italian name in the third volume of his Historiae Animalium...
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    illustrated in 1560 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his Nomenclator Aquatilium Animantium—Gesner mistook the mushroom for a marine organism....
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    mumbled. The hawfinch was described and illustrated by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his Historiae animalium in 1555. He used the Latin name Coccothraustes...
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    three days. It was described and pictured in the fourth volume of Conrad Gesner's famous Historiae animalium, published in 1551 – 58 and 1587. Cryptozoologist...
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    The 16th-century German zoologist Conrad Gesner has been influenced by the Beast of Revelation in his depiction of the Hydra in volume four of Historiae...
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    Augustine. 1565: Invention of the graphite pencil (in a wooden holder) by Conrad Gesner. Modernized in 1812. 1568: Gerardus Mercator creates the first Mercator...
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    Porpoises, University of California Press, p. 310, ISBN 978-0-520-03283-5 Conrad Gesner (6 September 2008). Historiae animalium. Archived from the original...
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  • (1506). A more detailed grammar was published in 1590 by Otto Walper. Conrad Gesner (d. 1565) was the first Christian to compile a catalogue of Hebrew books...
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  • Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. Preface. Scott, Michon (26 March 2017). "Conrad Gesner". Strange Science: The rocky road to modern paleontology and biology...
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  • Theatrum in London, compiled posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny by Thomas Muffet and prepared for publication by Théodore...
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    illustrated natural history catalogues of 16th-century naturalists Conrad Gesner and Ulisse Aldrovandi. Their major contribution to natural history was...
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    Bloomsbury. ISBN 1-59691-071-2. Pettitt, George A. (18 February 2014). "Conrad Gesner". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 26 September 2017. Rudwick, Martin...
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    nomenclature, the same Latin name had been used by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner when he described and illustrated the blue tit in his Historiae animalium...
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    and their conservation. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-09-01. Conrad Gesner (6 September 2008). Historiae animalium. Archived from the original...
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    legs and feet as similar to those of men. In 1551, Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner rejected the belief of the hyena's hermaphroditism, and theorised that...
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