. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. Fig. 414. — Gesner. From Lory, "Biology andits Makers," New York, Henry Holt and Company. the great zoological text-hook of the new era, as Phny's was of the Roman era. Gesner's text- book appeared between 1551 and 1558 in four huge quarto volumes bound in parchment. He never completed this work, which is not strange, since he l^usied him- self with many other great un- dertakings. He was the first to establish a museum and a l)otani- cal garden. Gesner's work was imitated and extended some years
. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. Fig. 414. — Gesner. From Lory, "Biology andits Makers," New York, Henry Holt and Company. the great zoological text-hook of the new era, as Phny's was of the Roman era. Gesner's text- book appeared between 1551 and 1558 in four huge quarto volumes bound in parchment. He never completed this work, which is not strange, since he l^usied him- self with many other great un- dertakings. He was the first to establish a museum and a l)otani- cal garden. Gesner's work was imitated and extended some years later by Aldrovanch (b. 1522 in Bologna, d. 1605). Such works, which had many successors, characterized the encj'clopaedic period. But the encycloiDsecUc period was one of original scientific in- vestigation as well as of codifica- tion. The Ijonds of authority which held naturalists to the writings of Aristotle and Galen were at last broken by Vesalius (b. 1512, d. 1564). Born into a noted family of physicians, Vesa- lius early showed a strong taste for anatomy, and was well edu- cated at different universities. Fig. 415. — Andreas Vesalius. He applied himself to careful per- From Foster "Lectures on the ggnal dissections of the human History oi rnysiology, by per- Diissiou. body, and in 1543 published his. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944; Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- joint author. New York, Macmillan
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