Acknowledgements ............................................... ix
List of Illustrations ........................................... x
Notes on the Editors ........................................... xx
Notes on the Contributors .................................... xxii
Introduction. Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology,
and Political and Religious Education ........................... 1
Karl A.E. Enenkel
Intersections of Zoology, Religion and Politics in Antiquity
1 Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte
in Politik und Religion: Plinius' Zoologie und der römische
Imperialismus
With an English Summary ...................................... 15
Karl A.E. Enenkel
The Order of Nature: Early Modern Views on Classification and
Generation, and Their Theological, Ideological and Empirical
Background
2 The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of
Hybrids in Early Modern Zoology ............................. 57
Karl A.E. Enenkel
3 Identification of Herring Species (Clupeidae) in Conrad
Gessner's Ichthyological Works: A Case Study on Taxonomy,
Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the Sixteenth
Century ................................................... 149
Sophia Hendrikx
4 Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), die
dänische Nation und das Ende der Einhörner
With an English Summary .................................... 172
Bernd Roling
5 Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck,
Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous
Generation ................................................. 197
Eric Jorink
6 Insects in John Ray's Natural History and Natural Theology . 235
Brian W. Ogitvie
7 Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die
Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche
Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit
With an English Summary .................................... 263
Bernd Roling
Images of Genesis: Intersections of the Visual Arts, Science,
and Religion
8 Rereading Düer's Representations of the Fall of Man ........ 301
Paul J. Smith
9 Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan
Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History in the Late
Sixteenth Century .......................................... 329
Amanda K. Herrin
10 Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and
Roelant Savery ............................................. 401
Marrigje Rikken
Symbolic Use of Animals and Political Education
11 Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political
Ornithology ................................................ 437
Sabine Kalff
12 Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die
Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes Dubravius
With an English Summary .................................... 460
Alexander Loose
Physiology and Political Ideology
13 From Physiology to Political Ideology: The Images of Man
in Early Modern Scotland ................................... 485
Tomás Demeter
Index Nominum ................................................. 509
Index Animalium—Index of Animals .............................. 516
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