Konrad Gesner
1516–65
Swiss classical scholar who was the author of several treatises on natural history and philology. Interested in systematic botanical and zoological classification, being one of the first botanists to realise the importance of floral structures as a means of establishing a systematic key to the classification of plant life.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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