Animalium

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It was in turn translated into Latin, along with Ibn Rushd (Averroes)'s commentary on it, by Michael Scot in the early 13th century. Also, commercial interests may also have motivated publishers or authors such as Gessner to include such creatures to boost sales.

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Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. English translations were made by Richard Cresswell in 1862 [22] and by the zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in 1910. On the front of this gorgeous oversized book, a sticker reads “Welcome to the Museum,” and indeed, as you turn the pages, you will feel as if you have stepped into the magical world of a natural history museum that has somehow come right into your house. It is beautifully illustrated and beautifully laid out and my friend is very lucky I didn’t spot it first otherwise I would have almost certainly brought it for myself.

It lends itself to this scale to showcase its abundance of breathtakingly beautiful, detailed illustrations. The account was dismissed as fanciful until the French naturalist Georges Cuvier described it in his 1817 Le Règne Animal.

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There’s some kind of alchemy going on here, as this feels like something other than just a reading experience. Na wstępie muszę napisać, iż nie jest to książka dla przedszkolaków(przypuszczam, że jest wiele osób, które tak mogły pomyśleć)w której autorki uczą "to jest lew, bo ma grzywę, a to żyrafa bo ma taaaką szyje". Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. From the blue button jellyfish, to the Masai giraffe, many things feathered, finned, and fur-coated can be found here, and they are incredibly presented.The pages are filled with detailed, beautiful drawings by London-based artist and curator Katie Scott.