Johannes Gessner (18 March 1709 – 6 May 1790) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, botanist, mineralogist and physician. He is seen as the founder of the "Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich".
Gessner was born and died in Zürich, where he trained under the physician Johannes von Muralt. He moved to Basel to study medicine, continuing his studies in 1726 and 1727 at the University of Leiden. There he became friendly with Albrecht von Haller, with whom he made a grand tour to Paris to finish their medical studies. There he wrote his diary, later published as Pariser Tagebuch. The two friends in 1728 studied mathematics under Johann Bernoulli and travelled through Switzerland.
Gessner became a doctor in Basel in 1730, but soon changed to a scientific career. In 1733 he became a mathematics professor and in 1738 began to teach physics in Zürich. Gessner influenced many Swiss students, such as Johann Heinrich Rahn and Johann Georg Sulzer.
Gessner produced publications on Swiss flora, and, as a follower of Carl Linnaeus, conceived the idea of creating illustrations which portrayed the Linnaean plant families. With the help of the painter and engraver Christian Gottlieb Geissler, he produced the 24-part Tabulae Phytographicae, which first appeared in 1795.[1]
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JohannesGessner (18 March 1709 – 6 May 1790) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, botanist, mineralogist and physician. He is seen as the founder of...
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career he performed illustrative work for Johann Heinrich Sulzer, JohannesGessner, Johann Kaspar Lavater and Johann Kaspar Füssli. He illustrated a number...
trampled human child. In 1758, the first to doubt his theory in print was JohannesGessner, who thought it was a giant catfish (Siluris). In 1787 Petrus Camper...
HINTZSCHE, Erich (1951). "[Seven letters from Albrecht von Haller to JohannesGessner.]". Gesnerus. 8 (1–2): 98–113. doi:10.1163/22977953-0080102010. PMID 14860454...
Arrighetti, Italian professor of natural philosophy (d. 1767) March 18 – JohannesGessner, Swiss mathematician (d. 1790) March 31 – Louis-Charles Le Vassor de...
Phytographicae, an encyclopaedic work published by the Zürich naturalist JohannesGessner (1709-1790), whose natural history collection Geissler also depicted...
Paracelsus Girolamo Savonarola Taccola Giorgio Vasari Andreas Vesalius Conrad Gessner List of Renaissance structures Index of Renaissance articles "CATHOLIC...
about twelve thousand titles. Gessner followed Johannes Trithemius’s work of placing works in systems of cataloging. Gessner admired Trithemius’s systems...
Tübingen under Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practice of medicine at Basel, where he was elected...
languages and served as textbooks for students such as the Swiss Salomon Gessner right up until the 19th century. By the time of his death in 1737, Johann...
Trincavelli (Venice, 4to. 1536). Three editions were published by Conrad Gessner (Zurich, 1543; Basle, 1549; Zurich; 1559), and another by Gaisford (Oxford...
by Johannes Bueler of Sennwald Parish. A dragon with an enormous head and two forelimbs, was claimed to have been encountered by 70-year-old Johannes Egerter...
Maischberger and Schmidbauer, subject: Deviators; BR. 2002 Johannes B. Kerner, guest of Johannes B. Kerner; ZDF. 2003 Unter der Haut - Das zweite Leben von...
of the card catalog. Coming from a commonplace book tradition, Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) invented his own method of organization in which the individual...
of knowledge until zoologists in the sixteenth century, such as Conrad Gessner, all influenced by Aristotle, wrote their own studies of the subject. Aristotle...
elements opens a variety of synthetic routes to target desired products. Gessner et al. first revealed a synthetic route for stabilized ketenyl anion using...
Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (born 1504) October 22 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French bibliophile (born 1479) December 13 – Conrad Gessner...
Trapp Hans Holt as Baron von Trapp Josef Meinrad as Dr. Wasner Adrienne Gessner as Mrs. Hammerfield Michael Ande as Werner von Trapp Knut Mahlke as Rupert...
R. J., Lewis, J., Gidden, M. J., Vogel, E., Freund, M., Beyerle, U., Gessner, C., Nauels, A., Bauer, N., Canadell, J. G., Daniel, J. S., John, A., Krummel...
Oligmüller as Peter Erich Franz as Gessner Fritz Schlegel as Ladusch Lore Frisch as Sonja Fabian Wander as Herbert Johannes Arpe as Müller Dorothea Thiesing...
ISBN 978-0-330-45659-3. Tannenberg: a Monument of German Pride, Peter K. Gessner, date unknown Archived 29 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Egremont...
Johann Heinrich Füssli Léon Gaud Ferdinand Gehr Franz Gertsch Salomon Gessner Alberto Giacometti Augusto Giacometti Giovanni Giacometti Babeli Giezendanner...
Leeuwenhoek was a contemporary of another famous Delft citizen, the painter Johannes Vermeer, who was baptized just four days earlier. It has been suggested...
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