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RONDELET, Guillaume [RONDELETIUS] (1507 – 1566)

1507 – 1566

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1554 CE–1555 CE

#282

Libri de piscibus marinis, in quibus verae piscium effigies expressae sunt. (Universae aquatilium pars altera.) 2 vols.

Rondelet wrote this book with the idea of verifying Aristotle, but in it he described many forms of fishes for the first time. The book is an accurate account of his investigation of Mediterranean fishes and marine an…