Petrus Gyllius or Gillius (or Pierre Gilles) (1490–1555) was a French natural scientist, topographer and translator. Gilles was born in Albi, southern...

on one of the Cyanean Rocks, and the 16th-century French traveller Petrus Gyllius thought the altar was a remnant of that shrine. The Asian rock is probably...

drew water from it until, in 1565, the French traveller Petrus Gyllius left a record of it. Gyllius recorded being rowed in between the columns and seeing...

animals nor plants, but are possessed of a third nature (tertia natura)". Petrus Gyllius copied Pliny, introducing the term zoophyta for this third group in...

empire were reportedly gathered and shipped to the construction site. Petrus Gyllius, a contemporary observer, wrote about seeing one of the four enormous...

extensively described along with a dissertation about its history by Petrus Gyllius, who visited Constantinople in 1550. No mention about any damage of...

lacuna, which is only known from a 16th-century Latin paraphrase by Petrus Gyllius. Dionysios of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos English translation...

year: Among the most famous of these prisoners were: French scientist Petrus Gyllius, captured in 1546 while traveling from France to Greece on a scientific...

incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and Turkish Wikipedia. Petrus Gyllius; John Ball (1729). Antiquities of Constantinople. London. William Hunter...

Ottoman Empire, the monument was ascended and measured, in secret, by Petrus Gyllius and described in his De Topographia Constantinopoleos et de illius antiquitatibus...