Farfel Notebook 09: Leaves 572-618

Summa collationum, sive Communiloquium ulm: Johann Zainer, 1481 f^0 Goff J-331 my leaf begins on d^6 verso to d^7 verso (of 8).

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1:3:7 Pars Prima. Distinctio Tercia. Capitulum septimus Q3 princeps

rit scientia illuminatus fii

text matches my leaf before capitulum sextum Q3 princips debet esse largus munificentia Mii Pars prima has Distinctio decima. Distintio tercia has Capitulum vice simus (20) Total of 7 parts (Pars Septima)

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Strassburg i Georg Husner, 1489 f^o Goff J-332 my leaf begins b^6 recto (of 6)

Pars Prima Distinction Tercia Capitulum Septimus ex. princeps debet esse illuminatus sapientiali scientia et studio principum antilquorum. text varies from my leaf in this copy.

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Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 1475 f^0 Goff J-330 Capitulum Septimus Q princeps fit scientia illuminatus my leaf d^2 recto --> d^3 verso (of 10)

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591 First Folio Paris, TN Feb. '04 $40.00

Gesner, Congrad (1516-1565). Historia animaliumm liber IV., qui est de piscium et aquatilium natura.... Editio secunda.... Continemtus in hoc volumine, G. Rondeletii...and

See #652

P. Bellonii... de Aquatilium singulis scripta. f^0 Francofurti: In Bibliopolio Andreae Cambieri, 1604 Ref: Wellisch 26:2 Nissen ZBT 1553.

Copy: Brit. Lib. (L. 23.dd.4), Folger, Univ of Illinois.

[40], 1052, 38 p.: ill. 38

p. 521 De Maena. Lib. IV Xx^3 p. 522 De Aquatilibus

Historia animalium (complete) 1st ed. Tiguri: Apud C. Froschovenum, 1551-87 5 v. in 4: ill. f^0

737 woodcuts vol. 1 (I-II) 1551-54 vol. 2 (III) 1555 vol. 3 (IV) 1558 vol. 4 (V) 1581

2nd ed. Francofurti; In bibliopolio Camberiano, 1585-1604 5 v. in 3 ill. f^0 This set contains the 2nd ed of vol. 1-IV + the 1st ed. of vol. V bound as vol. 1 (I, II, V) ovl. 2 (III) vol. 3 IV

3rd Francofurti: In bibliopolio H. Laurentii, 1617-21 5 v. in 3 ill. f^0 This set contains the 2nd ed. (reprinted) of vol I-V bound as vol. I (I, II) vol. 2 (III) vol. 3 (IV, V)

Guillaumei Rondelet (1507-1566) French physician, anatomist + naturalist wrote a famous work on fishes, parts of which were used by Gesner in his work. Piere Belon (1517?-1564) French naturalist wrote books on fishes, binds + plants . Both men were among Gesner's closest friends

Stanford KB 1551 G45 f vol. 4 (1558) Tigvri Christoph Frosehovervm In this edition my leaf is p 616 De Aquatilibus (Ff^2 of 6) p. 615 De maena Lib IIII p 617 De maena alba Lib IIII before De Maena Rondeletius after De malo Insano Marino De Manv Marina

Historia Animalium -- his greatest work, the stating point of modern zoology

C. Gresner his fame as a scientist rests on the first of his large scientific encyclopedias the 5 volume Historia animalium. While he continued to write his magnum opius. (the Historia animalium) he also published during the 5 years. 1552-57, more than a dozen works among them important contributions to medicine, botony, chemistry and philosophy.

Gesner's works were influential for a period of almost 2 centuries. The Historia animalium remained one of the standard zoologicla reference works until the early 17th century

Printing + the Mind of Man

One of the great polymaths of the Renaissance He was a German Swiss who studied at Basel, Paris, Montpellia; became professor of Greek at Lausannet finally professor of medicine at Zurich where he died of the plague.

Historia minalium--most of the woodcuts were prepared specially for this work, others were borrowed. remained the most authoritative zoological book between Aristotle + the publication of Ray's classification of fauna in 1693. It was reprinted many times, although it often suffered at the hand of editors.

"There is no more notable man in the history of learning + science in the 16th C." A suggestion of Gesner's versatility can be seen in the fact that for a quarter of a century he was professor of both ethics + physics at Zurich + a practicing physician during the same period. He was astonishingly productive publishing 72 works + leaving 18 others unfinished.