Pandectarum sive Partitionum universalium Conradi Gesneri…libri xxi

…1548 by the encyclopaedic work Pandectarum sive Partitionum universalium Conradi Gesneri…libri xxi, in which Gesner attempted to survey the recorded knowledge of the world under 21 headings. The first 19 books were published in 1548; the last, devoted to theological thought, was published in 1549, while the 20th, on medicine,…