. Animal biology. Biology; Zoology; Physiology. 450 ANIMAL BIOLOGY of the scientific Renaissance involved a turning away from the authority of Aristotle and the past, and an adoption of the Aris- totelian method of observation and induction. Botany was the first to give visible signs of the awakening, probably because of the dependence of medicine on plant products. "All physicians professed to be botanists and every botanist was thought fit to practice ; In the Herbals published in Germany during the sixteenth century we can trace the growth of. Fig. 290. — Andreas Vesalius
. Animal biology. Biology; Zoology; Physiology. 450 ANIMAL BIOLOGY of the scientific Renaissance involved a turning away from the authority of Aristotle and the past, and an adoption of the Aris- totelian method of observation and induction. Botany was the first to give visible signs of the awakening, probably because of the dependence of medicine on plant products. "All physicians professed to be botanists and every botanist was thought fit to practice ; In the Herbals published in Germany during the sixteenth century we can trace the growth of. Fig. 290. — Andreas Vesalius. plant description and classification from mere annotations on the text of Dioscorides to well-illustrated manuals of the plants of western Europe. Meanwhile zoology began to emerge as a distinct science, but the less obvious immediate utility of the subject, combined with the greater difficulty of collecting and preserving animals, and therefore the necessity of more dependence on travellers' tales, contributed to retard its advance. One group of naturalists, the encyclopaedists, so-called from their endeavor to gather all the available information about living things, attempted the impos- sible. However, this gleaning from the ancients and adding such material as could be gathered led to the publication of huge volumes of fact and fiction, which in the case of the best — Gesner's History. 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 Woodruff, Lorande Loss, 1879-1947. New York The Macmillan company
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