Lumos: Renaissance Thinkers Behind the Magic
3. Konrad Gesner (1516–1565)
Konrad Gesner from Konrad Gessner als Gärtner (Konrad Gesner as a gardener), 1948
Creator: Diethelm Fretz
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Konrad Gesner was a Swiss naturalist whose 1551 publication, Historiae Animalium, is considered one of the first examples of modern zoology. Unlike earlier thinkers, Gesner included not only Greek and Biblical descriptions of animals in his writings, but also information that he had gained from dissection.
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