“How great a pleasure, how great a delight for the mind... is to be rapt in admiration by the greatness of the mountains, by the theatre of Our Lord, and to raise one’s head, so to speak, into the clouds.”

About Conrad Gessner

Naturalist • Swiss

Conrad Gessner was a Swiss physician, naturalist, and bibliographer, celebrated as a key figure of the German Renaissance. His monumental five-volume work, Historia animalium, is considered the starting point of modern...