HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE: #19 
Conrad Gesner, the greatest polyhistorian of his 
age, was born at Zurich, 1516, and died there 1565. 
He has written on several branthes of natural. his- 
tory, botany, and physic. Huis works are-as under*. 
Leonard Fuchsius was born in Bavaria; 1501; He 
studied at Heilbrun, Erfurt, Ingolstadt, and after 
many changes of fate; came as professor to Tuebinr- 
gen, where he died the 10th May, 1566. The em- 
peror Charles the Fifth esteemed him very highly, 
and honoured him in various ways. He wrote a 
history of plants, of which many editions have ap- 
peared in German, French, and Latiny, and hkewise 
wrote notes to Dioscorides, Galen, and Hippocrates, on 
which account he entered into a great dispute with the 
famous physician arid piilolowiet, John Heynbut or 
Hagenbut, who likewise called himself Cornarus. Cor- 
narus published a treatise against him, entitled, Vul- 
pecula excoriata. Vuchsius answered in another, with 
the title, Cornarus-furiens ; after which Cornarus 
finished the dispute with the publication of a work, 
* Conradi Gesneri Enchiridion historiae plantarum. Basil. 
1541. 8vo, De plantis antehac ignotis. Without a year or 
place. 12mo. Historia plantarum. Basil. ehe I2mo. De 
raris et admirandis herbis, quae, sive quod noctu luceant, sive 
alias ob causas, Lunatiae vocantur, Tiguri. TGR sy eAtoy wins 
last is extremely scarce. 
t Leonardi Fuchsii de historia stirpium comrhentarii itisignes. 
Basilide. 1542. fol. It has 512 figures, several of them ta- 
Ken from brunfels, though larger. All the trees and smallest 
plants are drawn of the same size. ‘Thére is another edition 
in 8vo? which is the first. 
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