Ulisse Aldrovandi

Italian naturalist who produced an encyclopedic work on natural history, called "the latest and most exact" naturalist.

Works

• Ornithology

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Verse 20: Let the Waters Bring Forth — Cited alongside Pliny and Plutarch on the remora fish

  "Pliny, Plutarch, and Aldrovandus likewise report the same about the remora"

• Verse 22: And He Blessed Them, Saying: Increase and Multiply — Cited as the latest and most exact naturalist on birds; demonstrates the phoenix is a fable

  "the latest and most exact is Ulysses Aldrovandus, consider the phoenix a fable"

• Verse 22: And He Blessed Them, Saying: Increase and Multiply — Cited for reporting that vultures reproduce without mating

  "others whom Aldrovandus cites under "vulture," report that all vultures are female"