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The colored [[woodcut]] illustrations were the first real attempts to represent animals in their natural environment. It is the first book to illustrate [[fossil]]s.<ref name=Anzovin>Anzovin, p. 366 item 5210 ''The first fossil illustrations were contained in the Historia animalium, published in 1551 by Swiss physician and naturalist Conrad von Gessner.''</ref><ref>Tallack, Peter, ''The Science Book'', Sterling Publishing Company, 2006, {{ISBN|1-84188-254-2}}, p. 46 ''Gessner’s classical training taught him to give pride of place to naming and classifying the fossils he described. Most importantly, he was concerned with precise identification. His book was the first to present fossil illustrations so students may more easily recognize objects that cannot be very clearly described in words.''</ref>
Gessner acknowledges one of his main illustrators was [[Lucas Schan]],<ref name=Kusukawa2010>{{cite journal |last1=Kusukawa |first1=S. |title=The sources of Gessner's pictures for the Historia animalium |journal=Annals of Science |date=July 2010 |volume=67 |issue=3 |pages=303–328 |url=http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/128/1286404337.pdf |doi=10.1080/00033790.2010.488899|pmid=20853813 |s2cid=27904499 }}</ref> an artist from [[Strasbourg]]. He likely used other illustrators as well as himself;<ref name ="Gessner2"/> the book is however famous for copying illustrations from other sources, including ''[[Durer's Rhinoceros]]'' from a well-known 1515 [[woodcut]].<ref name=Huxley/> Gessner's natural history was unusual for sixteenth century readers in providing illustrations.<ref name ="Gessner2"/>
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