Garden Of Eden Historiae Animalium
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Garden Of Eden Historiae Animalium
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This depiction of the Garden of Eden appears at the end of the first book of "Historiae Animalium". In it, God pulls Eve from Adam's rib. The scene reflects Gesner's religious conviction that the study of animals is also the study of man and of God's divine plan in the creation of the universe. Historiae Animalium (Studies on Animals) is considered to be the first modern zoological work. This first attempt to describe many of the animals accurately is illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts drawn from personal observations by Gesner and his colleagues. Conrad Gesner (March 26, 1516 - December 13, 1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. To his contemporaries he was best known as a botanist, but in 1551 he was the first to describe brown adipose tissue; and in 1565 the first to document the pencil. He died of the plague, at the age of 49, the year after his ennoblement.
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