History of biology
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The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences
The frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's evolution-themed poem The Temple of Nature shows a goddess pulling back the veil from nature (in the person of Artemis). Allegory and metaphor have often played an important role in the history of biology.
Clay models of animal livers dating between the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries BCE, found in the royal palace at Mari
Description of rare animals (写生珍禽图), by Huang Quan (903–965) during the Song dynasty
Frontispiece to a 1644 version of the expanded and illustrated edition of Historia Plantarum, originally written by Theophrastus around 300 BCE
Antoine Lavoisier
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influenc
History of biology
…from design). Over the 18th and 19th centuries, biological sciences such as botany and zoology became increasingly professional scientific disciplines. Lavoisier and other physical scientists began to connect the animate and inanimate worlds through physics and chemistry. Explorer-naturalists such as Alexander…
Detail from Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife by Jacques-Louis David
The Collège des Quatre-Nations in Paris
Lavoisier conducting an experiment on respiration in the 1770s
Portrait of Lavoisier explaining to his wife the result of his experiments on air by Ernest Board