. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. 4(10 ZOOLOGY wm wliich politics and the social organization dominated, science slumbered. The intellectual centre was transferred to Alex- andria and here mecUcine, \\i\\\ its stimulus to careful studies in human anatomy and physiologj', flourished. The most famous of the anatomists who studied at Alexandria was Galen (second century of our era), who made numerous dissections on man, monkeys, ruminants, rats, and e\-en man}' kinds of birds, snakes, and fish. ^h- ^^ .^ H \^ ^^^ anatomy was for ele\-en or twe
. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. 4(10 ZOOLOGY wm wliich politics and the social organization dominated, science slumbered. The intellectual centre was transferred to Alex- andria and here mecUcine, \\i\\\ its stimulus to careful studies in human anatomy and physiologj', flourished. The most famous of the anatomists who studied at Alexandria was Galen (second century of our era), who made numerous dissections on man, monkeys, ruminants, rats, and e\-en man}' kinds of birds, snakes, and fish. ^h- ^^ .^ H \^ ^^^ anatomy was for ele\-en or twelve "* ' centuries the most esteemed work on the sul:)ject, being by some apparently regarded as more reliable than nature itself. During the INIiddle xlges of Europe, the age of constant .strife, central and northern Europe gradually acquired the culture of the south. At this time all science languished, but with the Renaissance, whose opening may be put at the discoA'ery of America, we note the first stirrings of a return to nature. The epoch from 1500 to the present time may be divided into four periods, as follows: the Encyclopa?dic period, 1500 to 1650; the System- atic period, 1650 to 1800; the Morphological period, 1800 to 1890; the Dynamic period, 1890 to the present. The encyclopiedic period is opened by Gesner (born in Zu- rich, 1516), who had the aim of coUecting all facts concerning animals, of examining them criticallj', and of writing a compen- dium that would show th(> position of the science and obviate the necessity of consulting the okler authors. His book was. Fic. — Galen. From Loo>-. "BJriloKy anil its Makers," New York, Henry Holt and 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 Cro
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