Parution : Christine Kleiter, “‘L’Histoire de la nature des oyseaux’ von Pierre Belon: Naturhistorische Bild – und Sammlungspraxis der Frühen Neuzeit”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025
Pierre Belon’s treatise on birds, published in Paris in 1555, is regarded as a pioneering early work of ornithology. Christine Kleiter analyzes this work in its exceptional position as one of the first printed and illustrated natural history treatises. She shows how the text and images pursue the claim to systematically document and catalog knowledge. In doing so, she compares Belon’s work with that of other naturalists, such as Conrad Gessner and Ulisse Aldrovandi. It...



