Conrad Gessner (/ˈɡɛsnər/; Latin: Conradus Gesnerus 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist...

Gessner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist, bibliographer, botanist, physician and classical...

is an encyclopedic "inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad Gessner (1516–1565). Gessner was a medical doctor and professor at the Carolinum in Zürich...

Hebrew. It listed 10,000 titles by 1,800 authors. The Swiss scholar Conrad Gessner started to compile his extensive work on Bibliotheca universalis at...

became professor of theology. In 1555 he published a new edition of Conrad Gessner's Epitome of his Bibliotheca universalis (a list of all authors who had...

specifically brown adipose tissue—was first identified by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1551. In humans, adipose tissue is located: beneath the skin (subcutaneous...

source of knowledge until zoologists in the sixteenth century, such as Conrad Gessner, all influenced by Aristotle, wrote their own studies of the subject...

first botanical garden are based on Conrad Gessner's (1516–1565) private herbarium. A Gessner descendant, Johannes Gessner (1709–1790) who was a physician...

culminating in the crowned king and salamander. Two salamanders of Gessner Conrad Gessner provided two illustrations of the salamander in his work, one realistically...

particular term, lituus alpinus, was used in 1555 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner when he published the earliest detailed description of the Alphorn:...

word for a Eurasian coot. The name was used by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1555. The type species is the Eurasian coot. A group of coots are...

..], a book with 22 translations of the Lord's Prayer collected by Conrad Gessner. Mithras (disambiguation) Mitra (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

Paracelsus Girolamo Savonarola Taccola Giorgio Vasari Andreas Vesalius Conrad Gessner List of Renaissance structures Index of Renaissance articles "CATHOLIC...

German theologian Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Hall (1926–2003), American cinematographer Conrad Hilton (1887–1979)...

caudatus" had been used by earlier authors such as the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in 1555, the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1599, and the English...

form of the card catalog. Coming from a commonplace book tradition, Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) invented his own method of organization in which the individual...

dates from the sixteenth century. This description by the naturalist Conrad Gessner calls the instrument a lituus alpinus and says it is "nearly eleven...

princeps (first print edition) of the original Greek was published by Conrad Gessner and his cousin Andreas in 1559. Both it and the accompanying Latin translation...

alpinists and the Ammonshorn 4 April 1979 50 francs 159 × 74 mm Green Conrad Gessner Eagle owl, primula, stars 4 October 1978 100 francs 170 × 78 mm Dark...

"cloud-topped." Numbered amongst those who have reached its summit are Conrad Gessner, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Schopenhauer (1804), Queen Victoria and...

earlier authors had already written about the Eurasan teal at length: Conrad Gessner had described it in the Historiae animalium as the anas parva ("small...

Labelye, is officially opened. Historia Plantarum, originally written by Conrad Gessner between 1555 and 1565. Copley Medal: George Edwards March 16 – Caroline...

Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile (born 1479) December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer (born 1516) Unknown dates Paolo...

pig was first described in the West in 1554 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner. Its binomial scientific name was first used by Erxleben in 1777; it...

287 BC Historia Plantarum (Gessner) (also called Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum), a book on plants by Conrad Gessner, written between 1555 and 1565...

test. The magpie was described and illustrated by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his Historiae animalium of 1555. In 1758, Linnaeus included the species...

to inquire into the causes of natural things." An early pioneer was Conrad Gessner, whose monumental 4,500-page encyclopedia of animals, Historia animalium...

the Eurasian bullfinch had been used in 1555 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his Historiae animalium. Ten subspecies are recognised: P. p. pileata...

Cephalopod size, for maximum shell diameters Historia animalium by Conrad Gessner, first book with fossil illustrations The Nautilus, a malacological...

Conrad Gessner provided a potential exception to this observation in his 1552 book The Treasure of Euonymus. Peter Morwen's translation of Gessner's Latin...