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🦉 Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Auctorem, 1833-1850.
https://t.co/qi1gTaFUo5

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In 1741, zoologist Georg Steller encountered strange beasts dwelling near the Shumagin Islands, calling them “sea-apes”. Though no specimen was ever recovered, sea-apes eventually made their way into the Historia Animalium.

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🦌 Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Auctorem, 1833-1850.
https://t.co/yFQ7NvbE78

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The Animalium collective put together a really nice little gathering of Canines with profits going to charity. I did a piece, check it out!

https://t.co/l5EDoaY9vs

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hey yall!! i got the pleasure of being part of which is a charity zine for the GWC! unlike the WWF, they're not selling nfts ;3 https://t.co/ZljJNofNO0

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Today we highlight Conrad Gessner’s 'Historia animalium,' published in 1551-1557 that mark a shift into looking at animals in a scientific way. It is considered the start of modern zoology in the West and it was the most widely read of Renaissance natural history books.

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🦌 Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Auctorem, 1833-1850.
https://t.co/UwisaLce7q

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🦌 Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Auctorem, 1833-1850.
https://t.co/5MnFvl8N4j

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'Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' - Konrad Gesner (1551–1587).

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🦌 Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Auctorem, 1833-1850.
https://t.co/eCG9NXdB9G

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Ippolito Salviani, Aquatilium Animalium Historiæ liber primus. 1558

41.i.10

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You'd like to meet him. Centaur.
in Philes's De natura animalium. Paris; between c. 1550 and 1569 Burney 97

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Amazed Unicorn
in Philes's De natura animalium. Paris; between c. 1550 and 1569 Burney 97

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🐚 Recreatio mentis et oculi in observatione animalium testaceorum:
Romae: Ex typographia Varesii, 1684.
https://t.co/ancVy2hB4R

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Coloured full-page 16th century engravings from the King's Library copy of Ippolito Salviani, Aquatilium Animalium Historiæ liber primus, Romæ, 1554, 41.i.10,

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Too many at BL to pick a favourite - but Add MS 82955, 1595 Liber Animalium, 245 drawings real and mythical with descriptions is online in full at
https://t.co/8ssWZ5HY5g

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🐞 Delectus animalium articulatorum:
Monachii: Impensis Editoris, 1830-1834.
https://t.co/fWvMNQyPCG

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