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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 scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Ulisse Aldrovandi (born Sept. 11, 1522, Bologna, Bologna—died May 4, 1605, Bologna) was a Renaissance naturalist and physician noted for his systematic and accurate observations of animals, plants, and minerals. After studying mathematics, Latin, law, and philosophy, Aldrovandi went to Padua in about 1545 to continue his studies.
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Ulisse Aldrovandi. Naturalist and professor of logic, philosophy and natural philosophy (Bologna 1522 – 1605). Hungry for knowledge, Aldrovandi was the leading representative of the 16th-century fashion for encyclopaedic naturalism at the University of Bologna. Over the course of his long life, he built up a collection of objects and mineral ...
May 11, 2018 · Aldrovandi, Ulisse. ( b. Bologna, Italy, 11 September 1522; d. Bologna, May 1605) natural sciences. Aldrovandi is a typical representative of those “universal” and multifaceted minds which seem to have been characteristic of the Renaissance. He was the son of a nobleman, Teseo Aldrovandi, a notary who served as secretary of the Senate of ...
Oct 11, 2016 · Abstract. Ulisse Aldrovandi was an Italian polymath with particular interests in natural history. In his own time Aldrovandi enjoyed wide recognition for his activity as a collector of natural curiosities and for his extensive library. In 1561, he became the first professor of natural history at the University of Bologna.
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A critical biography of the early modern Italian naturalist. The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath, and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of colored drawings detailing them. Many of these drawings found their way into his illustrated publications, most of which were ...
the young Bolognese natural historian Ulisse Aldrovandi. Drafted while he. awaited trial for heresy before the Inquisition in 1549-50, his Di tutte le statue antiche describes the private antiquities collections of Rome. It was published in 1556, 1558, and 1562, and was frequently imitated and copied by later authors.
