Peter Ascanius

Peter Ascanius

Peter Ascanius (Aure, 1723–1803) was a Norwegian biologist and a student of Linnaeus. He taught zoology and mineralogy in Copenhagen in the period1759–1771, and later worked as a supervisor at the mines in Kongsberg and elsewhere in Norway. Among his works was the five-volume illustrated "Icones rerum naturalium". He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1755 as a Foreign Member.

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* [http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/PURL/?PPN368287165 "Icones rerum naturalium" Volume I at the Center for Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen]


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