Switzerland / Africa: Drawing of an elephant by Swiss naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Gesner / Konrad Gessner, 1551

'Historiae animalium' (History of Animals) published at Zurich in 1551-58 and 1587, is an encyclopedic work of 'an inventory of renaissance zoology' by Conrad Gesner, a doctor and professor at the Carolinum, the precursor of the University of Zurich. It is the first modern zoological work that attempts to describe all the animals known, and the first bibliography of natural history writings. The five volumes of natural history of animals consists of more than 4500 pages.

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