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'''Peter Ascanius''' ([[Aure]], [[1723]]–[[1803]]) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[biologist]] and a student of [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]. He taught [[zoology]] and [[mineralogy]] in [[Copenhagen]] in the period[[1759]]–[[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 [[Royal Society|Fellow of the Royal Society]], elected in 1755 as a Foreign Member. |
'''Peter Ascanius''' ([[Aure]], [[1723]]–[[1803]]) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[biologist]] and a student of [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]. He taught [[zoology]] and [[mineralogy]] in [[Copenhagen]] in the period[[1759]]–[[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 [[Royal Society|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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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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