Josias Simmler (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
epistola Gesneri de libris a se editis (VD16 S 6520). Tiguri: C Froschoverum. Vallesiae descriptio, libri duo: de alpibus commentarius. Zürich, 1574 (VD16...
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of Zurich, published the first treatise on the Alps, entitled De Alpibus commentarius. T. Graham Brown described Simler's observations on gear for travel...
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Matterhorn (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Bénédict de Saussure, who thought the word was related to "deer" (French: cerf and Italian: cervo). Josias Simler hypothesized in De Alpibus Commentarius (1574)...
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