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Konrad von Gesner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Konrad von Gesner The Swiss naturalist Konrad von Gesner (1516-1565) wrote "Historia animalium," which is considered the basis of modern zoology. Konrad von Gesner was born on March 26, 1516, in Zurich. The man who was...
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Gessner, Conrad (Also Konrad Gesner, 1516–1565)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
GESSNER, CONRAD (also Konrad Gesner, 1516 – 1565) GESSNER, CONRAD (also Konrad Gesner, 1516 – 1565), polymath, philologist...xFC; rich, 1967. Leu, Urs B. Conrad Gesner als Theologe: ein Beitrag zur Z ü...
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Renaissance in Europe and geological ideas
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...lived in Germany, and the Swiss, Conrad Gesner (1516–65). Agricola (christened...reason, the Father of Mineralogy. Conrad Gesner is known principally as a zoologist...well as fossils in the modern sense. Gesner presented a classification of all these...
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Ibises
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...first described scientifically by a European naturalist, Konrad Gesner, in the sixteenth century. By the middle of the seventeenth century, they disappeared from central Europe, and the bird that Gesner described and painted was not noted again until it was seen...
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1967), a musical comedy by Clark Gesner (book, music, lyrics).[Theatre 80 St. Marks, 1,597 perf.] A day in the life of Charlie Brown ( Gary Burghoff), a...
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Kerosene
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...KEROSENE A flammable hydrocarbon oil, kerosene is a petroleum product primarily used for fuel. In 1854 Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner (1797 – 1864) discovered a process for distilling fuel from petroleum (initially, coal oil). He found the derived...
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Petroleum Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...early nineteenth century, crude oil was collected from rock pools and primitively refined for commercial use. Dr. Abraham Gesner of Pittsburgh, inventor of kerosene lamp oil, formed the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company in 1854. In 1859 Edwin Drake and W...
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lighting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...an improved oil lamp with a burner and a chimney, and this type of lamp was widely used after the Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner popularized the use of kerosene. The Introduction of Gas as a Fuel Coal gas was first used as an illuminant in the late 18th...
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bibliography
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in Print, and Books in Print. There have been efforts at universal bibilography: in 1545 at Zürich, Konrad von Gesner published his Bibliotheca universalis ; in 1895 the International Institute of Bibliography was established at Brussels. There...
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Gesnerias
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...tropical America, found on the mainland and islands of the West Indies. The genus was named after the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) by Charles Plumier (1646-1704), a French missionary, botanist, and explorer, who published a book about...
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