Animalium

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Topsell, Edward; Gessner, Konrad; etal. (1967). The history of four-footed beasts and serpents and insects. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-70923-6. Leroi, Armand Marie (2014). The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02674-6.

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Book I The grouping of animals and the parts of the human body. Aristotle describes the parts that the human body is made of, such as the skull, brain, face, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, thorax, belly, heart, viscera, genitalia, and limbs. Kusukawa, S. (July 2010). "The sources of Gessner's pictures for the Historia animalium". Annals of Science 67 (3): 303–328. doi:10.1080/00033790.2010.488899. PMID 20853813. http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/128/1286404337.pdf. Gesner was aware of fakery in the curio shops market, where dried rays were manipulated to look like dragons (Jenny Hanivers). [ 8] There may have also been fake mermaid-like creatures being imported from China by the Dutch. [ 9] There have been various academic studies relating to Gessner's inclusion of fantastical creatures in the volumes, such as the sea monk, sea bishop, or ichthyocentaur. [6] [7] English translations were made by Richard Cresswell in 1862 [22] and by the zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in 1910. [23]a b Allaby, Michael (2010). Animals: From Mythology to Zoology. Infobase Publishing. pp.34–. ISBN 978-0-8160-6101-3. Haworth, Alan (2011). Understanding the Political Philosophers: From Ancient to Modern Times. Taylor & Francis. pp.37–40. ISBN 978-1-135-19896-1. Voultsiadou, Eleni; Vafidis, Dimitris (1 January 2007). "Marine invertebrate diversity in Aristotle's zoology". Contributions to Zoology. 76 (2): 103–120. doi: 10.1163/18759866-07602004. ISSN 1875-9866. S2CID 55152069. a b Anzovin, p. 366 item 5210 The first fossil illustrations were contained in the Historia animalium, published in 1551 by Swiss physician and naturalist Conrad von Gessner.

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Kusukawa, S. (July 2010). "The sources of Gessner's pictures for the Historia animalium" (PDF). Annals of Science. 67 (3): 303–328. doi: 10.1080/00033790.2010.488899. PMID 20853813. S2CID 27904499. Laid out in ‘galleries’ rather than chapters, the museum metaphor is rather heavily laboured. It mimics the tradition Natural History Museum layout though by dividing the contents by taxonomic classification (mammals, birds, fish, etc.) rather than continents or countries – which is how I remember most of my childhood wildlife reference books being laid out. What comes out of this is a book that is more scientific in focus; explicitly about how and why certain creatures are grouped together by similar traits rather than just a more general ‘isn’t wildlife cool’ message. It also means that unglamorous creatures like Porifera (sea sponges) are given as much attention and explanation as traditional favourites like Birds of Prey. While it’s not a complete encyclopedia of animal life (with only 160+ featured animals it was never going to be) it provides a good overview of the larger animal groupings, alongside some interesting chosen examples from each major family on the tree of life. Some of Aristotle's observations were not taken seriously by science until they were independently rediscovered in the 19th century. For example, he recorded that male octopuses have a hectocotylus, a tentacle which stores sperm and which can transfer it into the female's body; sometimes it snaps off during mating. [11] The account was dismissed as fanciful until the French naturalist Georges Cuvier described it in his 1817 Le Règne Animal. [12] Aristotle also noted that the young of the dogfish grow inside their mother's body attached by a cord to something like a placenta (a yolk sac). This was confirmed in 1842 by the German zoologist Johannes Peter Müller. [12] Aristotle noted, too, that a river catfish which he called the glanis cares for its young, as the female leaves after giving birth; the male guards the eggs for forty or fifty days, chasing off small fish which threaten the eggs, and making a murmuring noise. The Swiss American zoologist Louis Agassiz found the account to be correct in 1890. [13] a b c d "Featured book archive: Historia animalium libri I-IV. Cum iconibus. Lib. I. De quadrupedibus uiuiparis. Zurich: C. Froschauer, 1551. N*.1.19(A)". Cambridge University Library. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019 . Retrieved 29 November 2014. a b Lang, Philippa (2015). Science: Antiquity and its Legacy. I.B.Tauris. pp.60–63. ISBN 978-0-85773-955-1.Hendrikx, Sophia. "Monstrosities from the Sea. Taxonomy and tradition in Conrad Gessner’s (1516-1565) discussion of cetaceans and sea-monsters". Anthropozoologica 53 (11): 133–134. http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica/53/11. Ogilvie, Brian W. (2006). The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-62087-5. And, to my mind, it is these illustrations rather than the ‘gallery’ structure that really make the book. Old fashioned - if not ‘paint and ink’ than the digital equivalent - and reminiscent of the Victorian explorers colour plates found in natural history museums ('Images of Nature' might just be my favourite gallery in the whole of the Natural History Museum, London). They are enchanting and beautiful in the way that most photo snaps of animals don’t manage (though I do love animal photography and Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the only art exhibition anyone will ever find me in raptures about). They are the main attraction of the book and what makes it stand out from other, similar, children’s encyclopaedias and reference books. Gessner’s Historia animalium is based on classical sources. It is compiled from ancient and medieval texts, including the inherited knowledge of ancient naturalists like Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, [ 1] and Aelian. [ 2] Gessner was known as "the Swiss Pliny." [ 3] For information he relied heavily on the Physiologus. [ 3]