Hello! I am Micah Carlson. Welcome to the introduction for
my Web Project for the History of Science! This Web Project will
focus primarily on the History of
Zoology/Biology. I have chosen this topic because I was once a
Zoology major, before Anthropology caught my attention! I love
animals and I am a veterinary technician by trade, so I would like to
find out when humans started looking at the animals around them and
studying them more in depth. I know that Aristotle was very
interested in this topic as well and wrote books called On the Parts of
Animals and History of Animals. I will be using the translations
of these books as sources for my project. I think that others
will be interested because most everyone has either owned pets and/or
currently owns them. Thanks for coming and enjoy! If you
have any questions, please feel free to
e-mail me!
My Episodes will be told through the eyes of an
alien
observer and will include:
Ancient Egyptians - they mummified
cats and other animals and had
to have at least a basic knowledge of animals to complete this endeavor
Aristotle - the books that I mentioned in
the first paragraph have a
wealth of information about his views and the views of his collegues
Medieval times - Bestiaries were very popular and , I think, very
interesting; the ancestor to the modern zoo and who doesn't love a zoo!
Very Early Modern Times - The current classification system and from
whence it came
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