It is compiled from ancient and medieval texts, including the inherited knowledge of ancient naturalists like Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, [1] and Aelian. Welcome to the Museum is a series of books set on the "walls" of the printed page, showcasing the world's finest collections of objects from natural history to art. At the end of the book there is an excellent index which includes both common names and scientific names (also provided for in each “exhibit”). But this misleadingly implies that all of this material has Didymus as its source (see also Van der Valk [n.

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But Gesner was known for meticulously checking facts, and it has been suggested that publishers may have interpolated material when Gesner was in no condition to gainsay them, since the author was already morbidly ill by the time of these publications.

Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response. This portfolio-like book is divided into six “galleries”: invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

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Open 365 days a year and unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, each title in this series is organized into galleries that display more than 200 full-color specimens accompanied by lively, informative text. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. It clearly isn’t meant to be a thorough exploration of the different taxonomic groups, drilling down into the science behind the weirder traits, but an overview to introduce people to the basic ideas of grouping, evolution, and shared traits and to provide some visual examples (both well known and obscure). Piękne kolory, świetnie oddany rzeczywisty wygląd zwierząt, są popularne zwierzaki, ale i te rzadko występujące. John Scarborough, School of Pharmacy and Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with his name stamp on front flyleaf.

I realise we are now in the age of google and wikipedia and that I am more than capable of looking up anything that catches my interest but more than once I found myself going ‘wait, that’s it? And, to my mind, it is these illustrations rather than the ‘gallery’ structure that really make the book. Mayflies do in fact walk on four legs, the front pair not being adapted for walking, so, Wilkins concludes, Aristotle was correct. Its illustrations are enchanting enough to entertain the imagination of the younger children while its accurately curated texts by Jenny Brown are informative enough to feed the intellectual hunger of the older audience. They are the main attraction of the book and what makes it stand out from other, similar, children’s encyclopaedias and reference books.

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To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. One of my favorite illustrations is the penguins, with space between them they still almost seem to flow into each other, fitting perfectly together and onto the page. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account.The fine lined pen and ink (colored digitally) pictures are detailed and gorgeous, with a vintage feel. Armand Marie Leroi's 2014 book The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science and BBC documentary Aristotle's Lagoon set Aristotle's biological writings including the History of Animals in context, and propose an interpretation of his biological theories. Also, commercial interests may also have motivated publishers or authors such as Gesner to include such creatures to boost sales. The comparative anatomist Richard Owen said in 1837 that "Zoological Science sprang from [Aristotle's] labours, we may almost say, like Minerva from the Head of Jove, in a state of noble and splendid maturity". History of Animals ( Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's Academy in Athens.