2018年1月3日 · “Monstrorum Historia” is a visually stunning book on the history of monsters. It is part of a larger work, an enormous 13-volume encyclopedia on natural history. The author, Ulisse Aldrovandi, wrote parts of the encyclopedia using the raw material in his museum and the botanical garden in Bologna in Italy.

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.

2013年4月24日 · An illustration of an open book. Texts. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Software. An illustration of two photographs. Images. An illustration of a …

2023年6月7日 · Printer's device on t.p. of 2nd pt.: Liberty with 2 books at her feet with the label "Bononia docet"; register, and printer's device at colophon: Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra with a club, palm tree in background, motto: "Invidia virtute superatur." Engraved t.p. signed: Io. Bapt. Coriolanus F. Bonon.

2006年1月1日 · The Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605)—often reductively considered as a mere encyclopedist and avid collector of natural history curiosities—lived an adventurous youth and a long maturity rich of manuscripts, books, and outstanding achievements.

2015年4月23日 · Perhaps the most famous illustrations of dragons in our collection come from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s posthumous Serpentum, et draconum historiae libri duo (The History of Serpents and Dragons), 1640. Aldrovandi (1522–1605) was a physician and naturalist from a noble family in Bologna.

2011年7月6日 · "Ulissi Aldrovandi (Aldrovandus) (1522-1605) graduated from Padua and Bologna Universities with degrees in law, philosophy and medicine and taught logic to supplement the occasional patronage bestowed on him by his cousin, the Pope.

The preserved dragon was displayed in Aldrovandi’s personal museum and was still an attraction over 100 years later. This book, The History of Serpents and Dragons, is the result of Aldrovandi’s...

Ulisse Aldrovandi was one of the first people to teach the study of natural history at the university level. Born into a noble family in Bologna, Aldrovandi received an extensive education including law, Latin, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Bologna, and later medicine at the University of Padua.

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive portrait of Aldrovandi, paying particular attention to two aspects: the role that the newly discovered continent of America played in his research interests, and his study of abnormalities of physiological development in organisms.