Johann Stumpf (writer)
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Johann Stumpf was an early writer on the history and topography of Switzerland as well as a theologian and cartographer.
Johannes Stumpf (c. 1536)
The Swiss region around Zürich.
Swiss nobleman by Heinrich Vogtherr, Private Collection
The battle of Morat, part of an engraving from the Stumpf Chronik
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss physician and natural scientist born in Zürich. His most famous work was the Physica sacra in four volumes, a commentary on the Bible that presented his view of the
Johann Stumpf (writer)
…New and greatly enlarged editions of the original work were issued in 1586 and 1606. The woodcuts are best in the first edition, and it remained till Scheuchzer's day (early 18th century) the chief authority on its subject. When he converted to Protestantism, Stumpf had carried over with him most of his…
J. J. Scheuchzer in 1731, aged 59
Physica sacra: The creation of man – and an individual's development, from fertilization to death
Herbarium diluvianum
Illustration of critique of Piscium querelae et vindiciae published in Acta Eruditorum, 1709