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A French translation was made by Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire in 1883. [24] Another translation into French was made by J. Tricot in 1957, following D'Arcy Thompson's interpretation. [25] A German translation of books I–VIII was made by Anton Karsch, starting in 1866. [26] A translation of all ten books into German was made by Paul Gohlke ...
Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines, which documented the conditions of animals on industrial farms, helped to galvanize the animal movement in Britain. [25] 1964 Largely due to the outcry following Animal Machines, British Parliament formed the Brambell Committee to
Hunting dogs, Book 1. The Historia animalium was Gessner's magnum opus, and was the most widely read of all the Renaissance natural histories.The generously illustrated work was so popular that Gessner's abridgement, Thierbuch ("Animal Book"), was published in Zurich in 1563, and in England Edward Topsell translated and condensed it as a Historie of foure-footed beastes (London: William ...
An Arabic translation of Parts of Animals is included as treatises 11–14 of the Kitāb al-Hayawān. Michael Scot made a Latin translation, and Pedro Gallego a Latin adaptation (Liber de animalibus) made from both the Arabic and Latin versions.
He was a vegetarian, and was reportedly the first animal "liberationist", buying animals from the market in order to set them free. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Against these ideas, Aristotle (384–322 BCE) argued that non-human animals had no interests of their own, ranking far below humans in the Great Chain of Being , or scala naturae , because of their ...
Edward Bancroft (English) wrote An Essay on the Natural History of Guyana in South America (1769) [3] and advanced the theory that flies transmit disease. 1771. Johann Reinhold Forster (German, 1729–1798) was the naturalist on Cook's second voyage around the world (1772–1775).
The history of zoology traces the study of the animal kingdom from ancient to modern times. Prehistoric people needed to study the animals and plants in their environment to exploit them and survive. Cave paintings, engravings and sculptures in France dating back 15,000 years show bison, horses, and deer in carefully rendered detail.
Progression of Animals (or On the Gait of Animals; Greek: Περὶ πορείας ζῴων; Latin: De incessu animalium) is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It gives details of gait and movement in various kinds of animals, as well as speculating over the structural homologies among living things.