Title: Johannes Gesnerus
Creator:Haid, Johann Jacob, 1704-1767, printmaker
Creator:Dällicker, R., artist
Physical Description: image.print.mezzotint.uncoloured
39 x 25.5 cm
Image Number: OPF000330
Description: Johannes Gessner (1709-1790) was a Swiss physician, botanist, physicist and mathematician who became renowned as a naturalist and humanist scholar. He practiced and taught in Zurich, where he founded the Société de Physique.
Notes: IOHANNES GESNERUS. Med. D. Phys. et Mathes. Prof. Societatis Physicae Tigurinae Praeses, Academiae Imperialis Naturae Curiosorum itemque Regiae Scientarum Beroli- nensis ac Suecicae Upsaliensis, ut et Societatis Physico- Bo- tanicae Florentinae Sodalis. Nat. d. 28. Mart. 1709. R. Dällicker pinx. Dec. IX. I.I. Haid sculps. et excud. A.V. (transcribed from front)
Subject: Gessner, Johannes, 1709-1790 -- Portraits.
Subject: Naturalists -- Switzerland -- Portraits.
Subject: Physicians -- Switzerland -- Portraits.
Subject: Botanists
Language: Latin
Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University
is Part Of: The Osler Library Prints Collection
Image Is Related To: Back