Dogs Historiae Animalium 16th Century is a photograph by Science Source which was uploaded on June 6th, 2014.
Dogs Historiae Animalium 16th Century
Gesner writes about the dog for nearly 100 pages, recognizing that its history is closely tied to that of humans. He writes extensively about the... more
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Dogs Historiae Animalium 16th Century
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Gesner writes about the dog for nearly 100 pages, recognizing that its history is closely tied to that of humans. He writes extensively about the problem of rabies, and includes famous stories about the faithfulness of dogs to their masters. Historiae Animalium (Studies on Animals) is considered to be the first modern zoological work. This first attempt to describe many of the animals accurately is illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts drawn from personal observations by Gesner and his colleagues. Conrad Gesner (March 26, 1516 - December 13, 1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. To his contemporaries he was best known as a botanist, but in 1551 he was the first to describe brown adipose tissue; and in 1565 the first to document the pencil. He died of the plague, at the age of 49, the year after his ennoblement.
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