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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
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* {{cite book |last=Gmelig-Nijboer |first=Caroline Aleid |title=Conrad Gessner's 'Historia animalium': an inventory of renaissance zoology|publisher=Meppel |year=1977 |isbn=}}
* {{cite book |last=Gessner |first=Conrad |authorlink=Conrad Gessner |title=Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts - A Selection of 190 Sixteenth-century Woodcuts from Gessner's and Topsell's Natural Histories |publisher=Dover Publications |year=1971 |isbn=04862270-1-4 |display-authors=etal}}
* {{cite book |last=Huxley |first=Robert |title=The Great Naturalists |publisher=Thames & Hudson |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-500-25139-
* {{cite book |last=Jardine |first=Secord |title=Cultures of Natural History|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1996 |isbn=0-521-55894-8 |display-authors=etal}}
* {{cite book |last=Library Company of Phil |first=Steven |title=Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries: A Selection of Books, Manuscripts, & Works of Art
* {{cite book |last=Ogilvie |first= Brian W. |title=The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe |publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2006 |isbn=0-226-62087-5}}
* {{cite book |last=Pavord |first=Anna |authorlink=Anna Pavord |title=The Naming of Names - The Search for Order in the World of Plants|publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2005 |isbn=1-59691-071-2}}
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* {{cite book |last=Rudwick |first=Martin J.S. |title=The Meaning of Fossils |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1976 |isbn=0-226-73103-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Schmitt |first=Charles B. |title=The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1990 |isbn=0-521-39748-0 |display-authors=etal}}
* {{cite book |last1=Topsell |first1=Edward
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