Ulisse Aldrovandi. Title page of Ornithologiae, 1599 Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older literature, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi. [a] Life[edit] Aldrovandi was born in Bologna to Teseo Aldrovandi and his wife, a noble but poor family.
He obtained a degree in medicine and philosophy in 1553 and started teaching logic and philosophy in 1554 at the University of Bologna. Heresy[edit] In June 1549 he was accused and arrested for heresy, for espousing the anti-trinitarian beliefs of the Anabaptist Camillo Renato. Work[edit] Botanic garden[edit] At his demand and under his direction a public botanic garden was created in Bologna in 1568, now the Orto Botanico dell'Università di Bologna. Collections[edit] Honors[edit] Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, ms. Aldrovandi 1... | Aldrovandi, Ulisse. Ulisse Aldrovandi - Biography. Biography Ulisse Aldrovandi(1522-1605) Ulisse Aldrovandi. Italian naturalist and physician. Together with Conrad Gesner, he led the Renaissance movement that placed a renewed emphasis on the study of nature. The great naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September, 1522 - 4 May, 1605) taught for many years at the University of Bologna during the latter half of the sixteenth century.
A contemporary of Shakespeare, he was one of the first great specimen collectors and regularly organized expeditions for that purpose. He also brought about the creation of the university’s botanical gardens in 1568, one of the first in Europe. Aldrovandi was nicknamed both the “Bolognese Aristotle” and the “Second Pliny.” Of Aldrovandi’s innumerable books and papers, relatively few were published in his lifetime. Two-legged dragon — from Historiae serpentum et draconum (1640) Another of his books mixing fable with reality was Historiae serpentum et draconum (Records of Serpents and Dragons), published in 1640. Aldrovandi Herbarium. Erbario Cesalpino - Collezioni - MSN: Museo di Storia Naturale - UniFI. Erbario Cesalpino - Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze.
L’erbario di Andrea Cesalpino L’erbario di A. Cesalpino è una collezione di exsiccata realizzata fra il 1555 e il 1563. E’ il più antico erbario del mondo in cui le piante sono ordinate con criteri sistematici; Cesalpino è infatti considerato lo scienziato che ha gettato le basi della botanica sistematica moderna. L’erbario di Andrea Cesalpino (1525-1603), costituito da piante essiccate, è ritenuto uno dei più antichi del mondo. Esso ha una enorme importanza in quanto è considerato il primo erbario realizzato con criteri strettamente scientifici. Infatti i campioni non sono disposti senza un preciso ordine come in altri erbari dello stesso periodo: Aldrovandi, Merini, Petrollini, ecc., ma sono collocati secondo un criterio che tiene conto delle affinità dei caratteri delle diverse specie.
Esso comprende 768 campioni diversi di piante vascolari montati a due o tre per volta su 266 fogli di carta inseriti in tre scatole. Curatore: Chiara Nepi, chiara.nepi@unifi.it. Cesalpino Herbarium - Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze. The herbarium of Andrea Cesalpino The herbarium of A. Cesalpino is a collection of exsiccata put together between 1555 and 1563. It is the oldest herbarium in the world in which the plants are ordered according to systematic criteria. Indeed Cesalpino is considered to be the scientist who laid the foundations of modern systematic botany. The herbarium of Andrea Cesalpino (1525-1603), consisting of dried plants, is considered one of the oldest in the world. It includes 768 different specimens of vascular plants mounted two or three at a time on 266 paper sheets contained in three boxes.
Originally it consisted of a single large volume but in 1844 it was rebound by Parlatore in three volumes. Andrea Cesalpino, physician and botanist from Arezzo, created his herbarium between 1555 and 1563 in Pisa (where he was Prefect of the Botanical Garden, succeeding Luca Ghini) using plants collected in various parts of Tuscany. Curator: Chiara Nepi, chiara.nepi@unifi.it. Reiner Solenander (1524-1601): an important 16th century medical practitioner and his original report of Vesalius' death in 1564. - PubMed - NCBI.
Luca Ghini. Ghini, Luca 1. Dates Born: Imola, c. 1490 Died: Bologna, 4 May 1556 Dateinfo: Birth Uncertain Lifespan: 66 2. Occupation: Lawyer His father was a notary in Imola. No information on financial status. 3. Birth: Italian Career: Italian Death: Italian 4. Schooling: Bologna, M.D. He studied medicine at Bologna, earning an M.D. in 1527. 5. Affiliation: Catholic 6. Primary: Primary: Bot, Pharmacology Subordinate: Medicine, Natural History The pioneer in the creation of the first botanical gardens (in Pisa in 1543 and, after a second was created in Padua, in Florence in 1545) in the 16th century and in the collection of the earliest herbaria (both of which explicitly served the ends of pharmacology), Ghini exerted his influence primarily through correspondence and teaching.
Ghini also collected in natural history in general--minerals and animals. 7. Primary: Academia, Medicine, Patronage Secondary: Government He is described as a highly regarded physician. 8. Type: Court Official 9. 10. Memberships: None. I placiti di Luca Ghini (primo lettore dei semplici in Bologna) intorno a ... - Giovanni Battista de Toni, Luca Ghini - Google Books. MICHIEL, Pietro Antonio in "Dizionario Biografico" Preserving the Cutting Edge: Mattioli Woodblocks. The project focuses upon the techniques (and difficulties) of woodblock cutting in the making of printed botanical images, as well as upon the use and reuse of images in two distinct traditions of early modern herbals. The main focus will be upon the woodblocks cut for a project linking plant anatomy with plant chemistry/alchemy organized by the Berlin court physician and Paracelsian chemist Leonhard Thurneisser (1531-1595/6).
Of over 1,900 woodblocks cut for the project, only 37 were used in an initial volume (Historia sive description plantarum) published by Thurneisser in Latin and German in 1578. After disappearing from view, many of the woodblocks were rediscovered in the mid 17th c. and became part of another project, distinct from the Paracelsian tradition, designed by Thomas Pancovius (1622-1665) in 1654. Cibo: Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica. These wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations are from a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica. Dioscorides (ca. 40–90 AD), a Greek physician and botanist, is considered to be the father of pharmacology, with this five-volume book hailed as the forerunner of modern pharmacopoeias (books that record medicines along with their effects and directions for their use). His book was translated from the original Greek to Latin, Arabic, and Spanish, and continued to be in use with additions and commentaries written by various authors, one of them being the 16th-century Italian doctor Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501–1577).
Describing one hundred new plants not included by Dioscorides, Mattioli’s expansion of the book first appeared in Italian and was later translated into Latin, French, Czech, and German. Gherardo Cibo (Genoa 1512-1597 Rocca Contrada) | A sketchbook with 22 leaves, bound in vellum, containing 24 studies of plants with discourses on their properties and with sketches for decorative elements | 16th Century, Drawings & Watercolors. Contact Info. Cibo at British Library. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), pp. 634-35.
E. Celani, 'Sopra un erbario di Gherardo Cibo conservato nella R. Biblioteca Angelica di Roma', Malpighia, 16 (1902) 181-226. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, 'Gherardo Cibo: visions of landscape and the botanical sciences in a sixteenth-century artist', Journal of Garden History, 9.4 (1989), 199-216, p. 201). Arnold Nesselrath, Gherardo Cibo, alias Ulisse Severino da Cingoli: disegni e opere da collezioni italiane (Florence: S.P.E.S, 1989) [exhibition catalogue]. J. Paula Finden, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp 166-70, fig. 11.
Erma Hermans, 'A 17th century Italian treatise on Miniature Painting and its Authors' in Historical Painting Techniques, Materials and Studio Practice, Papers from the Leiden Symposium ed. by A.