Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
✓ Source-basedstableCarnolian scientist
ScientistsLived 1641 to 1693 · aged 52
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Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor or Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor or simply Valvasor was a natural historian and polymath from Carniola, present-day Slovenia, and a fellow of the Royal Society in London.
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Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, published 1689
Title page of his Topographia Archiducatus Carinthiae antiquae et modernae completa, 1688
Valvasor's map of Carniola in Die Ehre deß Hertzogthums Crain
Lake Cerknica, from a critique of the first volume of Die Ehre deß Hertzogthums Crain published in Acta Eruditorum, 1689Awards 1
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Scientists born in the 1640s 6
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Scientists
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deceased
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Lived 1641 to 1693 · aged 52
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