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2022-06-26

Resident Evil (2002). ID'd the illustrations on the desk in the dormitory (and mansion) a few years back. They're from an ancient book by Conrad Gessner.

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2022-04-10

Conrad Gessner’s frogs and toad. From vol. 4 of his history of animals (Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1558), in a special hand-coloured copy presented to by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1574. 1/2

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2022-01-27

Today we highlight Conrad Gessner’s 'Historia animalium,' published in 1551-1557 that mark a shift into looking at animals in a scientific way. It is considered the start of modern zoology in the West and it was the most widely read of Renaissance natural history books.

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2021-09-28

Conrad Gessner's "Nomenclator Aquatilium Animantium"

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2021-04-17

Feels weird going back to painting after doing flat colors and inks for so long! Here's a quick one, the crazed Dr. Gessner.

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2020-08-10

LEPUS CORNUTUS The 'horned hair' was first described in Conrad Gessner's Historiae Animalium, Zurich, 1551-87. This led to the animal being included in many other important works of natural history. The Jackalope and Wolpertinger are other examples

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2020-06-02

タイトルがめちゃ長いTabulae phytographicae, analysin generum plantarum exhibentesという文献に纏められた花や草の解説イラストが可愛いです。Gessner Johannesによって1700年後半に描かれたものです。この図書館のwebでPDFが閲覧できます。https://t.co/p5J7Tx9zS3

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2020-05-19

Décidément 2020 est placée sous le signe de la BronsonXploitation après ... Voici de avec donc

Ce film semble être un autre chez daté pour le 24 Juin 2020.

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2020-03-25

Beautiful Monster: "Man-fish, about the size of a boy." - Conrad Gessner, Historia Animalium, 1604.

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2019-11-09

The Historiae Animalium (“Accounts of Animals” 1551-1558) is a 4,500-page encyclopaedia. In it, Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner attempted to list & describe all the world’s animals. He netted some mythical creatures along the way. Nonetheless the book marks the birth of zoology

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2019-06-14

For we've found this beautiful hand-coloured plate of thistles. Believed to have hung on Linnaeus' wall, the plate was given to Linnaeus by Johannes Gessner c.1764 https://t.co/co8cg5Zn7V

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2019-01-25

Facsimile illustrations from Historia Plantarum by Swiss botanist, physician, and linguist, Conrad Gessner (1516-1565). https://t.co/mUi9AUI6V2

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2018-06-22

Woodcut depicting a pack of hunting dogs, from the ‘quadruped’ volume of Conrad Gessner’s Historia animalium (Zurich, 1551-1587)

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2017-03-07