Gesner, Conrad

Gesner, Conrad, The treasure ofEuonymus, tr. Peter Morwyng (1559). 

Gesner, Konrad.The newe iewell of health [by] Conrad Gesner. Amsterdam New York Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Da Capo Press, 1971. 258p. 

For Hills works see STC. Apparently Hill became ill in 1576 andentrusted the completion of this work to Hester, and Conrad Gesner s The newejewell of health (1576) to George Baker. Hill however seems to have recovered and lived until 1599 DNB. 

Some also ascende h her, and make the first men by and after the beginning of the world, authors therof. Conrad Gesner, The treasure of Euonymus, tr. Peter Morwyng (1559), sig. AT. In Ben Jonsons The Alchemist is a joke about Adam writing a treatise of the philosophers stone in High Dutch, Ben Jonson,... 

E. Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents, Volume 2. The History of Serpents Taken Principally from the Historise AnimaUum of Conrad Gesner (reprint of 1658 London edition), Da Capo Press (Plenum), New York, 1967, pp. 677-681. 

FIGURE 108. Frontispiece from Conrad Gesner s 1576 The New leweU of Health (from The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, a collection in the Othmer Library, CHF). Women commonly operated stills in the sixteenth century. 

Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) was born in Zurich into the very poorest circuni stances. His early brilliance was noted by his father who sent him to his uncle. 

FIGURE 109. The title page of Book Two of Conrad Gesner s The Practice of the New and Old Physicke, Wherein is Contained the Most Excellent Secrets ofPhisicke and Philosophic, divided into foure Bookes. In the Which are The Best Approved Remedies for the Diseases as well Inward as Outward of al the Parts of Man s Body, etc. (London, 1599). Now that s a title ... 

The use of elemental sulfur to produce sulfuric acid came later. Reacting elemental sulfur with oxygen (i.e., burning) stopped at sulfur dioxide. The process had been studied by some of the leading scientists of the 16 century, Angelo Sala (1576 - 1637), Andreas Libavius (1560 - 1616), and Conrad Gesner (1516 -15 65). To add the essential one more atom of oxygen to form sulfur trioxide, a catalyst was required. 

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