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Philipp Jakob Sachs

German physician (1627–1672) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philipp Jakob Sachs[1] (26 August 1627 – 7 January 1672) was a German physician, naturalist, and editor of Ephemerides Academiae naturae curiosorum, the first ever learned journal in the field of medicine and natural history. Born in Wrocław, he later became a city physician (Stadtphysicus) there, and was one of the founders of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, today the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[2]

Philipp Jakob Sachs as depicted in Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum (1676)

His works include the 1665 Gammarologia, on crabs.

Works

Ampelographia, 1661
  • Ampelographia (in Latin). Leipzig: Jacob Trescher. 1661.

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