Gessner's Print of Pigs, 16th Century
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Included in the text is a fanciful version of a pig's last will and testament: "I bequeath my bristles to the shoemakers, my ears to the deaf, my tongue to the lawyers, my thighs to the pie-makers, and my hooves to the thieves." 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 Gessner and his colleagues. Conrad Gessner (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. © Science Source
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Conrad Gessner Artwork , Renaissance Animal Classification , Hand-colored Woodcuts Of Animals , Historical Pigs Illustration , Colorized Woodcut Drawings , Famous Swiss Naturalist Mammals , Domestic Ungulate History , Sixteenth Century Zoological Studies
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