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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)
Konrad von Gesner
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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.
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