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In his preface, Gesner dedicates Historiae Animalium to the City Council of ZÌ_rich, where he was the City Physician and a professor at its University. As a physician, he feels that a deeper understanding of the Animal Kingdom will broaden our knowledge of medicine. As a religious man, he also feels that it will help his readers to understand the great plan of God, who he believes created the perfect universe and all of its creatures. 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 Gesner and his colleagues. Conrad Gesner (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.
