KARL ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science. PAUL J. SMITH is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the contributors1.Introduction.Karl EnenkelINTERSECTIONS OF ZOOLOGY, RELIGION AND POLITICS IN ANTIQUITY2.Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik und Religion: Plinius‘ Zoologie und der römische ImperialismusKarl Enenkel, with an English summaryTHE ORDER OF NATURE: EARLY MODERN VIEWS ON CLASSIFICATION AND GENERATON, AND THEIR THEOLOGICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL BACKGROUND3.The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern ZoologyKarl Enenkel4. Identification of Herring Species (Clupeiae) in Conrad Gesner’s Ichtyological Works: a Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the 16th CenturySophia Hendrikx5.Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), die dänische Nation und das Ende der EinhörnerBernd Roling, with an English summary6.Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous GenerationEric Jorink7.Insects in John Ray’s Natural History and Natural TheologyBrian W. Ogilvie8.Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und NeuzeitBernd Roling, with an English summaryIMAGES OF GENESIS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE VISUAL ARTS, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION9.Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of ManPaul J. Smith10.Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History of the Printed Paradise in the Late 16th CenturyAmanda K. Herrin11.Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant SaveryMarrigje RikkenSYMBOLIC USE OF ANIMALS AND POLITICAL EDUCATION12.Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political OrnithologySabine Kalff13.Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes DubraviusAlexander Loose, with an English summaryPHYSIOLOGY AND POLITICICAL IDEOLOGY14.From Physiology to Political Ideology: the Images of Man in Early Modern ScotlandTamás DemeterIndex Nominum

“As this topic is so visual, there are nearly one hundred illustrations (some in color), unusual and welcome in an academic publication. The quality of the publisher’s production is matched in the scholarship of the essays within that present us with the latest interpretations of what it meant for early modern zoologists to read the “Book of Nature.” This book is highly recommended to historians of science and medicine, scientific taxonomists, and art historians.”Anna Marie Roos, University of Lincoln. In: ISIS, Vol. 106, No. 4 (2015), pp. 921-922.

KARL ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science. PAUL J. SMITH is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the contributors1.Introduction.Karl EnenkelINTERSECTIONS OF ZOOLOGY, RELIGION AND POLITICS IN ANTIQUITY2.Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik und Religion: Plinius‘ Zoologie und der römische ImperialismusKarl Enenkel, with an English summaryTHE ORDER OF NATURE: EARLY MODERN VIEWS ON CLASSIFICATION AND GENERATON, AND THEIR THEOLOGICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL BACKGROUND3.The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern ZoologyKarl Enenkel4. Identification of Herring Species (Clupeiae) in Conrad Gesner’s Ichtyological Works: a Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the 16th CenturySophia Hendrikx5.Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), die dänische Nation und das Ende der EinhörnerBernd Roling, with an English summary6.Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous GenerationEric Jorink7.Insects in John Ray’s Natural History and Natural TheologyBrian W. Ogilvie8.Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und NeuzeitBernd Roling, with an English summaryIMAGES OF GENESIS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE VISUAL ARTS, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION9.Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of ManPaul J. Smith10.Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History of the Printed Paradise in the Late 16th CenturyAmanda K. Herrin11.Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant SaveryMarrigje RikkenSYMBOLIC USE OF ANIMALS AND POLITICAL EDUCATION12.Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political OrnithologySabine Kalff13.Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes DubraviusAlexander Loose, with an English summaryPHYSIOLOGY AND POLITICICAL IDEOLOGY14.From Physiology to Political Ideology: the Images of Man in Early Modern ScotlandTamás DemeterIndex Nominum

“As this topic is so visual, there are nearly one hundred illustrations (some in color), unusual and welcome in an academic publication. The quality of the publisher’s production is matched in the scholarship of the essays within that present us with the latest interpretations of what it meant for early modern zoologists to read the “Book of Nature.” This book is highly recommended to historians of science and medicine, scientific taxonomists, and art historians.”Anna Marie Roos, University of Lincoln. In: ISIS, Vol. 106, No. 4 (2015), pp. 921-922.

KARL ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science. PAUL J. SMITH is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the contributors1.Introduction.Karl EnenkelINTERSECTIONS OF ZOOLOGY, RELIGION AND POLITICS IN ANTIQUITY2.Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik und Religion: Plinius‘ Zoologie und der römische ImperialismusKarl Enenkel, with an English summaryTHE ORDER OF NATURE: EARLY MODERN VIEWS ON CLASSIFICATION AND GENERATON, AND THEIR THEOLOGICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL BACKGROUND3.The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern ZoologyKarl Enenkel4. Identification of Herring Species (Clupeiae) in Conrad Gesner’s Ichtyological Works: a Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the 16th CenturySophia Hendrikx5.Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), die dänische Nation und das Ende der EinhörnerBernd Roling, with an English summary6.Snakes, Fungi and Insects. Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous GenerationEric Jorink7.Insects in John Ray’s Natural History and Natural TheologyBrian W. Ogilvie8.Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus. Die Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und NeuzeitBernd Roling, with an English summaryIMAGES OF GENESIS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE VISUAL ARTS, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION9.Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of ManPaul J. Smith10.Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History of the Printed Paradise in the Late 16th CenturyAmanda K. Herrin11.Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant SaveryMarrigje RikkenSYMBOLIC USE OF ANIMALS AND POLITICAL EDUCATION12.Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political OrnithologySabine Kalff13.Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung. Die Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes DubraviusAlexander Loose, with an English summaryPHYSIOLOGY AND POLITICICAL IDEOLOGY14.From Physiology to Political Ideology: the Images of Man in Early Modern ScotlandTamás DemeterIndex Nominum

“As this topic is so visual, there are nearly one hundred illustrations (some in color), unusual and welcome in an academic publication. The quality of the publisher’s production is matched in the scholarship of the essays within that present us with the latest interpretations of what it meant for early modern zoologists to read the “Book of Nature.” This book is highly recommended to historians of science and medicine, scientific taxonomists, and art historians.”Anna Marie Roos, University of Lincoln. In: ISIS, Vol. 106, No. 4 (2015), pp. 921-922.