Aldrovandi, Ulisse

Paola Bertucci, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002347

1522–1605 Italian naturalist and collector who catalogued plants, animals and minerals.

Keywords: natural history; botanical gardens; sixteenth century; collections; museums

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Further Reading
	book Aldrovandi U (1600) Ornithologiae, hoc est, de avibus historiae libri XII. Bononia.
	book Aldrovandi U (1648) Museum Metallicum. Bononia.
	book Aldrovandi U (1668) Dendrologiae naturalis, scilicet arborum historiae libri duo. Bononia.
	book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Findlen P (1994) Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press.