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    Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a...
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    : 73  The earliest Western description may be that published in 1555 by Pierre Belon,: 12  who while travelling from Heraclea to Konya in southern Turkey...
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    before this, from Aristotle onwards, and it was explicitly analysed by Pierre Belon in 1555. In developmental biology, organs that developed in the embryo...
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    Pierre Belon Lapisse, Baron de Sainte-Hélène (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ bəlɔ̃ lapis]; 25 November 1762 – 30 July 1809) commanded an infantry division...
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    the classical era, continuing in the early modern period with work by Pierre Belon who noted the similarities of the skeletons of birds and humans. Comparative...
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    botanical and zoological exploration by Pierre Belon (1517–1564), a French naturalist from Le Mans. Starting in 1546, Belon travelled through Greece, Asia Minor...
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    Nourriture et cuisine, Paris, 1848, not paginated. Pierre Belon, Voyage au Levant, les observations de Pierre Belon du Mans, de plusieurs singularités et choses...
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    The current spelling guillemot is of French origin, first attested by Pierre Belon in 1555, but derived from Old (11th century) French willelm, and matched...
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    cedars. Pierre Belon visited the area in 1550, making him the first modern traveler to identify the Cedars of God in his ‘’Observations’’. Belon counted...
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    juice, or shalgam water. The French traveler, naturalist and writer Pierre Belon described its production method in the 16th century. Şalgam is produced...
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  • María Belón (born 1966), Spanish physician and motivational speaker Pierre Belon (1517–1564), French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat Pierre Belon...
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    the red legs of the Eurasian oystercatcher; it had been in use since Pierre Belon in 1555. The family Haematopodidae was introduced (as the subfamily Haematopodinae)...
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    opposition to using human mumia in the 16th century. The French naturalist Pierre Belon (1517–1564) concluded that the Arab physicians, from whom the western...
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    forest remained dangerous for travellers; the scientist and traveller Pierre Belon was murdered by thieves in the Bois de Boulogne in 1564. During the reigns...
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    Renaissance. The writings of three 16th-century scholars, Hippolito Salviani, Pierre Belon, and Guillaume Rondelet, signify the conception of modern ichthyology...
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    The city was abandoned at an unknown date. When the French traveller Pierre Belon visited the area in the 1540s there remained nothing but ruins, used...
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    aves tardas given by Pliny the Elder, these names were mentioned by the Pierre Belon in 1555 and Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1600. The word tarda comes from tardus...
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    Naturae. He cited the earlier descriptions by the French naturalist Pierre Belon and by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner, both of which had been published...
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    Pierre Belon (1553), Guillaume Rondelet (1554), and Conrad Gesner (1558). It was described as a "fish" that looked superficially like a monk. Belon (1553)...
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    Tadorne for this species, a name that was used by the French naturalist Pierre Belon in 1555. It may originally derive from Celtic roots meaning "pied waterfowl"...
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    The name Oedicnemus had been used earlier by the French naturalist Pierre Belon in 1655. The species is now placed in the genus Burhinus that was introduced...
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    Ottoman-period travellers to the area as to the rarity of date palms, including Pierre Belon, who in 1553 scoffed at the idea that the region could have ever produced...
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    Gessner's Historia animalium (1563), copied from De aquatilibus (1553) by Pierre Belon. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the eponymous Prince says "Excellent, i' faith...
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    from the earliest works to describe the animals, including those of Pierre Belon and Guillaume Rondelet, but the name was not used by some later authors...
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    bath Early modern travellers in the 16th and 17th centuries, including Pierre Belon and Pietro Della Valle, had mistakenly identified Troy with Alexandria...
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    by indigenous peoples in pre-colonial southern California. In 1553, Pierre Belon described in his work Observations that pissasphalto, a mixture of pitch...
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    statesman, juridical scholar and poet of slave origin (b. c. 1488) April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist (b. 1517) April 9 – Georg Hartmann, German instrument...
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    thus highly prized in Europe; they were described by French naturalist Pierre Belon as tasting like a "nicely dressed eel". Beaver pelts were used to make...
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    worked by Mary include the publications of Pietro Andrea Mattioli and Pierre Belon. Her "bird of America", the toucan, was based on an illustration by André...
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  • women on the market place and to (male) merchants. The French traveler Pierre Belon noted this phenomenon in the 16th century and reported that: “Jewish...
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