Category:Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus

Author



Alternative names	English: Marsilius Deutsch: Luigi Ferdinando Graf von Marsigli Français : Louis Ferdinand de Marsigli
Description	Italian scientist, naturalist, soldier and botanist
Date of birth/death	10 July 1658	1 November 1730
Location of birth/death	Bologna	Bologna
Work period	1680-1730
Work location	Bologna, Habsburg Empire, Ottoman Empire
Authority control	VIAF: 27075563 LCCN: n82122441 GND: 118640968 BnF: cb12008074x ISNI: 000000010881463X WorldCat

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Alternative names	English: Marsilius Deutsch: Luigi Ferdinando Graf von Marsigli Français : Louis Ferdinand de Marsigli
Description	Italian scientist, naturalist, soldier and botanist
Date of birth/death	10 July 1658	1 November 1730
Location of birth/death	Bologna	Bologna
Work period	1680-1730
Work location	Bologna, Habsburg Empire, Ottoman Empire
Authority control	VIAF: 27075563 LCCN: n82122441 GND: 118640968 BnF: cb12008074x ISNI: 000000010881463X WorldCat



Alternative names	Jacobus Houbraken
Description	Dutch printmaker, draughtsman, engraver and illustrator
Date of birth/death	25 December 1698	14 November 1780
Location of birth/death	Dordrecht	Amsterdam
Work period	1710-1780
Work location	Amsterdam
Authority control	VIAF: 7659158 LCCN: no2005063124 GND: 122076354 BnF: cb14969447f ULAN: 500007033 ISNI: 000000008087199X WorldCat

after drawings by Raimondo Manzini

Title

Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus

Subtitle

Observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis perlustratus

Volume

1-6

Publisher

The Hague: Comitum, apud P. Gosse, R.C. Alberts, P. de Hondt; Amsterdam: Uytwerf & Changuion

Year of publication

1726

Place of publication

The Hague and Amsterdam

Language

latin

Description

English: 1726 work by the Italian naturalist and soldier Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (1658 – 1730). It is a natural history encyclopedia of the lower Danube, published in 6 volumes in both The Hague and Amsterdam. The extensive work covers cartography (vol. 1), classical studies (vol. 2), mineralogy (vol. 3), fish fauna (vol. 4), birds (vol. 5) and other subjects (vol. 6).

Detailed information by volumes:

Volume 1: In tres partes digestus geographicam, astronomicam, hydrographicam contains geographical, astronomical and hydrographical data related to the Danube.
Volume 2: De antiquitatibus Romanorum ad ripas Danubii covers Ancient Roman remains by the Danube.
Volume 3: De mineralibus circa Danubium effossis reviews minerals in the Danube area.
Volume 4: De piscibus in aquis Danubii viventibus discusses the fish of the Danube.
Volume 5: De avibus circa aquas Danubii vagantibus, et ipsarum nidis catalogs the birds Marsigli encountered along the Danube. Includes 74 plates after drawings by the Italian artist Raimondo Manzini (1658-1730), including 59 birds and 15 nests with clutches, some of the earliest illustrations of its kind in the history of ornithology
Volume 6: De fontibus Danubii. Observationes anatomicae. De Aquis Danubii et Tibisci. Catalogus plantarum. Observationes habitae cum barometris et thermometris. De Insectis covers the springs of the Danube, anatomy, plants, insections and observations on pressure and temperature.