biography
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| lived:
| (1516–65)
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| biography:
| Naturalist and physician, born in Zürich, N Switzerland. He studied in Bourges, Paris, and Basel, becoming professor of Greek at Lausanne (1537) and of philosophy then of natural history at Zürich (1541). His Bibliotheca universalis (1545–9) contained the titles of all the books then known in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, with criticisms and summaries of each. His Historia animalium (1551–8) attempted to bring together all that was known in his time of every animal. He collected over 500 plants undescribed by the ancients, and also wrote on medicine, mineralogy, and philology. |
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