The Revealing Hand-Written Notes of an Early Modern Polymath
The Swiss polymath Conrad Gessner (1515-65) possessed a wide-ranging library, which was dispersed after his death. In recent years, nearly four hundred items have been tracked down in Zurich, Basle, Rome, Erlangen and Tartu. The present source edition of Gessner’s private library contains those seventy-eight books that Gessner read most carefully and annotated by hand. The marginalia in these books are so numerous that they almost constitute a new set of sources, which are of interest not only to historians and philologists but also to those who study the history of early modern medicine and the natural sciences.
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