The sources of Gessner's pictures for the Historia animalium.
Gessner’s sources for the pictures in his Historia animalium were varied in kind and in quality. This should be understood within the larger context of the Historia animalium in which Gessner sought to collect everything ever written about animals, an enterprise that could not be completed by a sing...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 303 - 328 |
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