ULISSI See also:

• ULISSI ALDROVANDI (1522-1605)

ALDROVANDI (1522-1605)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian naturalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble parentage at See also:

• BOLOGNA
• BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (1524–1608)

Bologna on the 11th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1522 . He was apprenticed to a See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant in See also:

• BRESCIA
• BRESCIA (anc. Brixia)

Brescia, but a commercial career being distasteful to him, he turned'his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, studying first in his native See also:

• TOWN

town and afterwards at See also:

• PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua . In 1550 he was accused of See also:

• HERESY

heresy, but succeeded in clearing himself before the See also:

• INQUISITION, THE (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

Inquisition . In 1553 he took his See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor's degree in medicine at Bologna, and in' the following See also:

• YEAR

year was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and also lecturer on See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany at the university . In 156o he was transferred to the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of natural See also:

• HISTORY

history . At his instance the See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate of Bologna established in 1568 a botanical See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden, of which he was appointed the first director . About the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he became inspector of drugs, and in that capacity published in 1574 a See also:

• WORK

work entitled Antidotarii Bononiensis See also:

• EPITOME
• EPITOME (Gr. lircroui, from isrLTEµveW, to cut short)

Epitome, which formed the See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model for many subsequent pharmacopoeias . He was also instrumental in See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding the public museum of Bologna, which contains, especially in the natural history See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, a large number of specimens collected by him . The results of his various researches were embodied in a magnum See also:

• OPUS ('O7rois)

opus, which was designed to include everything that was known about natural history . The first three volumes, comprising his See also:

• ORNITHOLOGY

ornithology, were published in 1599, and a See also:

• FOURTH

fourth, treating of See also:

• INSECTS

insects, appeared in 16oz_ After his See also:

• DEATH

death a number of other volumes were compiled from his See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript materials, under the editorship of several of his pupils, to whom the task was entrusted by the senate of Bologna . The work was enriched by a large number of illustrations pre-pared at See also:

• GREAT

great expense, the author having, it is said, employed several celebrated artists for See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years . Among these were Lorenzo Benini of See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence and See also:

• CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)

Christopher See also:

• CORIOLANUS, GAIUS (or GNAEUS)14IARCIUS

Coriolanus of See also:

• NUREMBERG (Ger. Nurnberg)

Nuremberg .

It has been said, indeed, that the cost of the under-taking was so great as to exhaust its author's means, and that he died penniless and See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind in the public See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital of Bologna . This, however, is probably incorrect, at least as regards the allegation of poverty . Published records of the senate of Bologna show that it liberally supported See also:

• ALDROVANDI, ULISSI (1522-1605)

Aldrovandi in his undertaking, doubling his See also:

• SALARY

salary soon after his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as professor, and bestowing on him from time to time sums amounting in all to 40,000 crowns . If, therefore, he died in the public hospital, he probably went there for the better treatment of his disease . His death occurred on the loth of May 16o5 . Aldrovandi was chiefly remarkable for laborious and patient See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research . He seems to have been totally destitute of the See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty, and hardly any See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt is made in his great work to classify facts or to distinguish between the true and the fabulous, the important and the trivial . Much is thus included that is of no scientific value, but it also contains much See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information of very great See also:

• INTEREST

interest to the naturalist .