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Gesner

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Ges·ner  (gsnr), Konrad von 1516-1565.
Swiss encyclopedist and naturalist who published an annotated bibliography of all known books in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew (1545-1549). His Historia Animalium (1551-1558) is considered the basis of modern zoology.
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Noun1.GesnerGesner - Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565)


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While later scholars like Johann Tritheim in the fifteenth century and Conrad Gesner in the sixteenth did begin to consider bibliographies practical works of reference, earlier scholars deployed bibliography in service of religion.
Even in the context of the French Renaissance, the image of a five-year old perusing the pages of Gesner, Vitruvius, Mattioli, and Alciato seems unrealistically virtuous.
His works included three books on animals based on the writings of the popular contemporary Swiss zoologist Canard Gesner.
 
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