History of Animals (redirect from Historia animalium)
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...
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Historia animalium ("History of the Animals"), published in Zurich in 1551–1558 and 1587, is an encyclopedic "inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad...
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Conrad Gessner (section Historia animalium (1551–1558))
on bibliography (Bibliotheca universalis 1545–1549) and zoology (Historia animalium 1551–1558) and was working on a major botanical text at the time of...
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Claudius Aelianus (redirect from De Natura Animalium)
translation De natura animalium at LacusCurtius (complete Latin translation) Greek De natura animalium libri XVII, Varia historia, Epistolae fragmenta...
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– which was illustrated in Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner's book Historia animalium – based on its resemblance, strange behavior, rapid movements, and...
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naturae 'ladder of being') is a concept derived from Plato, Aristotle (in his Historia Animalium), Plotinus and Proclus. Further developed during the Middle Ages,...
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actual rats, but for persons who lived off others. Conrad Gesner in Historia animalium (1551–58) stated: "Some would have it that the rat waxes mighty in...
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maqālāt) of Aristotle's: Historia Animalium: treatises 1–10; De Partibus Animalium: treatises 11–14; De Generatione Animalium: treatises 15–19. Medieval...
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Inquiries into Animals (Historia Animalium) (HA) Generation of Animals (De Generatione Animalium) (GA) Movement of Animals (De Motu Animalium) (DM) Parts of Animals...
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also doubted whether it was really possible (see e.g. Aristotle, Historia animalium, 6.24; Varro, De re rustica, 2.1.28). Between 1527 and 2002, approximately...
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