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NATURAL HISTORY

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c. 512Vienna Dioscorides. Codex Vindobonensis Med. Gr. 1.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ) KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)
1469Historia naturalis, libri XXXVII.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79)
1475Buch der Natur.
MEGENBERG, Konrad von (1309 – 1374)
1476De animalibus. Translated by Theodorus Gaza. Edited by Ludovicus Podocarthus.
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322) PODOCATARO, Ludovico (Ludovicus Podocatharus) (1429 – 1504)
GAZA, Theodorus (Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς) (1398 – 1475)
GAZA, Theodorus (Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς) (1398 – 1475)
1478De animalibus. Edited by Fernandus Cordubensis (Fernando de Córdoba).
ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280) CÓRDOBA, Fernándo de (Fernandus Cordubensis) (1425 – 1486)
1478Halieutica, sive de piscatu. [Translated by Lorenzo Lippi, with recipes for cooking added by Lippi.]
OPPIANUS, [Ὀππιανός; Oppian of Anazarbus, of Corycus, or of Cilicia] (140 – ) LIPPIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo Lippi) (1440 – 1485)
c. 1481​–c. 1482Herbarium Apulei.
APULEIUS PLATONICUS, (Pseudo-Apuleius) (350 – )
1482Physiologus de naturis duodecim animalium.
THEOBALDUS (1050 – )
1517Oppianou Alieuticon biblia pente. Tou autou Kynegetikon biblia tessara. Oppiani De piscibus libri V. Eiusdem De venatione libri IV. Oppiani De piscibus Laurentio Lippio interprete libri V.
OPPIANUS, [Ὀππιανός; Oppian of Anazarbus, of Corycus, or of Cilicia] (140 – ) LIPPIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo Lippi) (1440 – 1485) OPPIAN OF APAMEA, [Oppian of Pella; Pseudo Oppian] (180 – )
1519Summa de Geografia que trata de todas las partidas e provincias del mundo en especial de las indias e trata largamente del arte del marcar...
FERNÁNDEZ DE ENCISO, Martín (1470 – 1528)
1525Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias.
OVIEDO Y VALDÉS, Gonzalo Fernández de (1478 – 1557)
1533Tou sophōtatou Philē, Stichoi iambikoi peri zōōn idiotētos.
PHILES, Manuel (1275 – 1345)
1533Ex Aeliani historia per Petrum Gyllium latini facti, itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiano: Tum eodem Gyllio luculentis accessionibus aucti libri XVI. De ui & natura animalium. Eiusdem Gyllij liber unus, de gallicis & latinis nominibus piscium.
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235)
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235) GILLES, Pierre [Petrus Gylllius, Gillius] (1490 – 1555)
1551L'histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, avec la vraie peincture & description du daulphin, & de plusieurs autres de son espece.
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
1553De aquatilibus, libri duo cum [epsilon] [iota] conibus ad viuam ipsorum effigiem, quoad eius fieri potuit, expressis.
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
1553Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois livres.
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
1554Aquatilium animalium historiae. Liber primus cum eorumdem formis aere excusis.
SALVIANI, Hippolito (1514 – 1572)
SALVIANI, Hippolito (1514 – 1572)
1555L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, et naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel escrite en sept livres.
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
1556Claudii Aeliani... opera, quae extant omnia: Graece Latineque e regione, uti versa hac pagina commemorantur... Conradi Gesneri.
GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565)
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235)
AELIANUS, Claudius [Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός] (175 – 235)
1565De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquote, plerique nunc primum editi.
GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565) KENTMANN, Johannes (1518 – 1574)
1599Dell'historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano Libri XXVIII. Nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diversa condition di miniere, e pietre. Con alcune historie di piante et animali; sin hora non date in luce.
IMPERATO, Ferrante (1525 – 1615)
1615Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....
HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587) XIMÉNEZ, Francisco (1560 – 1620)
1622Continuatio rariorum et aspectu dignorum varii generis quae collegit et suis impensis aeri ad vivum indici curavit atque evulgavit....
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
1628Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia.
HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587) RECCHI, Nardo Antonio de ( – 1595)
1632Thaumatographia naturalis, in decem classes distincta, in quibus admiranda 1 Coeli. 2 Elementorum. 3 Meteororum. 4 Fossilium. 5 Plantarum. 6 Avium. 7 Quadrupedum. 8 Exanguium. 9 Piscium. 10 Hominis.
JONSTON, John [Jan] (1603 – 1675)
1648Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678) MARGGRAF, Georg (Marcgrave) (1610 – 1644)
1650​–1653Historia naturalis. 6 vols: Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus; Historiae naturalis de avibus; Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis; Historiae naturalis de exanguibus aquaticis; Historiae naturalis de insectis, de serpentibus et draconbius; Historiae naturalis de serpentibus.
JONSTON, John [Jan] (1603 – 1675)
1650​–1653Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri: Cum aeneis figuris; [Historiae naturalis de serpentibus libri II; Historiae naturalis de insectis libri III; Historiae naturalis de exanguibus aquaticis libri IV; Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V; Historiae naturalis de avibus libri VI].
JONSTON, John [Jan] (1603 – 1675)
1658De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.
PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678) BONDT, Jacob de [Jacobus Bontius] (1592 – 1631)
1662​–1669Metamorphosis naturalis, ofte historische beschryvinghe.... 3 vols.
GOEDAERT, Jan [GOEDARTIUS] (1620 – 1668)
1674An account of two voyages to New-England. Wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges; The prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming: a description of the countrey [sic], natives, and creatures; with their merchantil [sic] and physical use; the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c. A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1696Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica: Sponte proveniunt, vel vulgò coluntur cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus, adjectis aliis quibusdam quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves, & Sancti Christophori nascuntur, seu Prodromi historiae naturalis Jamaicae pars prima.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1698A journey to Paris in the year 1698.
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
1707​–1725A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: With the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life. 2 vols.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1719Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: In quâ, præter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & quibus fuerunt inventæ, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula
MERIAN, Maria Sibylla (1647 – 1717)
MERIAN, Maria Sibylla (1647 – 1717)
1719Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. Worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage, nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet; ingleichen was ein Natgur-Forscher in den dreyen Reichen der Natur....
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
1725Histoire physique de la mer.
MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando [MARSIGLI] (1658 – 1730)
1726Danubius pannonico-mysicus, observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis perlustratus et in sex tomos digestus. 6 vols.
MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando [MARSIGLI] (1658 – 1730)
1734​–1765Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissmis expressio per universam physices historiam. 4 vols.
SEBA, Albertus (1665 – 1736)
SEBA, Albertus (1665 – 1736)
1735A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth: Describing the several islands and Settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies; the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants. With remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts.
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
1735Historiae Aegypti naturalis qua continentur rerum Aegyptiarum libri quatuor. Opus posthumum nunc primum ex auctoris autographo, diligentissime recognito, editum; atque ex eodem tabellis aeneis XXV illustratum et uberimmo indice auctem. (2 vols.) Vol. 2: Pars secunda, sive, de Plantis Aegypti liber auctus & emendatus. Accedunt tabella aenae LXXVII plantis summo artificio incisis; ut & dissertatio eiusdem de laserpitio, & lotoaegyptia. Cum observationibus & notis Joannis Veslingii, equitis, In Patavino Gymnasio Anatomiae & Pharmaciae professoris primarii. Accedunt Eiusdem Joannis Veslingii paraeneses ad rem herbariam & vindiciae opobalsami cum indicibus necessariis.
ALPINI, Prospero [ALPINUS] (1553 – 1617)
VESLING, Johann (1598 – 1649)
VESLING, Johann (1598 – 1649)
1737The natural history of North Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c.
BRICKELL, John (1710 – 1745)
1741El Orinoco ilustrado y defendido. Historia natural, civil y geográfica de este gran río y de sus caudalosas vertientes, govierno, usos, y costumbres de los indios sus habitadores, con nuevas, y utiles noticias de animales, arboles, frutos, aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices medicinales ...
GUMILLA, Joseph (1688 – 1750)
GUMILLA, Joseph (1688 – 1750)
1746Description abregée du fameux cabinet de Mr. Le Chevalier de Baillou pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des pierres précieuses, métaux, minéraux, et autre fossiles.
BAILLOU, Johann Ritter von (Giovanni Baillou; Jean Baillou) (1679 – 1758) SAINT-LAURENT, Joannon de (1746 – )
1749​–1789Histoire naturelle générale et particulière…. 44 vols., plus atlas.
BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707 – 1788)
BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707 – 1788)
1751Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matter worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm....
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777) KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
1753​–1761En Resa til Norra America. 2 vols.
KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
1754The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants, particulary the forest trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions in English and French. To which are added, observations on the air, soil, and waters with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of / by the late Mark Catesby; revised by Mr. [George] Edwards. 2 vols.
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
1754Poissons, écrevisses et crabes, de diverse couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les côtes des Terres Australes....
RENARD, Louis (1678 – 1746)
1756The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts, containing 1. An accurate description of that Island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climate in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illustrated with fifty copper-plates...in natural size....
BROWNE, Patrick (1720 – 1790)