#gesner

[laylaroze]

Lately I've been doing everything but writing headcanons, so here's a Fem version of Eric Gesner (Erica Gesner) 😛

[lindahall]

Conrad Gessner – Scientist of the Day

Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist, was born Mar. 26, 1516. 

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[nixdragon]

a little girl just came up for help on math and i switched tabs to something without really thinking about it and it was a picture for my science history class on Conrad Gesner so it was this picture

So now she thinks I was just sitting at my computer staring at this man I guess

[amnhnyc]

Happy Birthday, Conrad Gesner! Celebrate #GesnerDay with a look at illustrations from Historiae animalium.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Act quick like a squirrel and you can tune in with @BioDivLibrary on their Facebook Page to see Conrad Gesner books from our Cullman Library collection! He was basically zoology’s dad. Check it out and see charming woodblock prints from the 16th century!

The event is at 1:30pm today, March 24th 2017 (Eastern time)

[biodivlibrary]

#GesnerDay!

Happy Birthday, Conrad Gesner! Today is #GesnerDay, which marks the 501st anniversary of Conrad Gesner's birth. Considered the founder of modern zoology, Gesner completed his five-volume work, Historia Animalium, cataloging the natural history of animals known during the Renaissance. Carol Linnaeus's groundbreaking work in taxonomy would not come until 200 years later, which makes Gesner's work incredibly important in the study of biodiversity and the history of zoology. 

On our Instagram, we'll be sharing illustrations from Gesner's Icones Animalium Quadrupedum Viviparorum et Oviparorum (1560), which is a condensed version of the Historia Animalium. From the common land snails to the fish of the deep sea, and even the fantastical, such as dragons, Gesner included them all. Icones Animalium was contributed for digitization by @smithsonianlibraries. 

[muspeccoll]

#WoodcutWednesday: This illustration of a lemur is from our copy of Conrad Gessner's Thierbuch, or animal encyclopedia, published in Zurich in 1563. ⠀ ⠀ Rare Vault QL41 .G4715 1557 ⠀ ⠀ #lemur #gessner #gesner #woodcut #illustration #art #animals #16thcentury #histsci #history #science #zoology #mizzou #universityofmissouri #libraries #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #specialcollections #rarebooks (at Ellis Library, University of Missouri Libraries)

[lindahall]

Conrad Gessner – Scientist of the Day

Conrad Gessner, a Swiss naturalist, was born Mar. 26, 1516.  

read more...