Olivier Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4513643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Natural History Museum of Basel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gessner’s fossil crab - an icon for the early history of palaeontology
This article was originally published in error before all the necessary corrections had been made. While no material changes have been made to the article, it has since been updated to correct some typographical errors. OUP apologizes for the error.
Gessner’s fossil crab
Nearly 450 years ago, the Swiss polymath Conrad Gessner was the first to use illustrations in a systematic manner in a book devoted to the subject of fossils. In his treatise De rerum fossilium . . . liber (1565), around 200 single objects are illustrated, of which almost fifty are fossils in the modern sense. Most of the figures were illustrations of pieces from Gessner’s private collection. Against all odds, some of these have survived to the p…
On the Top of the World
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On the Top of the World
Gessner’s fossil crab
Nearly 450 years ago, the Swiss polymath Conrad Gessner was the first to use illustrations in a systematic manner in a book devoted to the subject of fossils. In his treatise De rerum fossilium . . . liber (1565), around 200 single objects are illustrated, of which almost fifty are fossils in the modern sense. Most of the figures were illustrations of pieces from Gessner’s private collection. Against all odds, some of these have survived to the p…
Gessner’s fossil crab - an icon for the early history of palaeontology
This article was originally published in error before all the necessary corrections had been made. While no material changes have been made to the article, it has since been updated to correct some typographical errors. OUP apologizes for the error.
Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Icon (2 works) · Marine and environmental studies (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Geology (1 work)