![]() ġ7th century Ulisse Aldrovandi Painting by Jan van Kessel, senior Robert Hooke's microscope Flea drawn by Buonanni (1691). NCSU Libraries owns a fragment of the fourth describes insects-both real and imaginary-and reptiles. Written in 1350, Buch der Natur was first printed in moveable type in 1475. 1350 – Konrad of Megenberg writes Buch der Natur, the first natural history in the German language, with the section "Von den Würmen" covering insects.1258 – Albertus Magnus treats insects in De animalibus.He describes the case of a stabbing near a rice field. 1250 – The first documented forensic entomology case is reported by Song Ci in the medico-legal text book Xiyuan Jilu. 1250 – Vincent of Beauvais Speculum Naturale treats insects, especially bees.1240 – Bartholomeus Anglicus writes De proprietatibus rerum, "On the Properties of Things", a 19-volume encyclopaedia including entries on insects.1230–1245 – Thomas of Cantimpré writes Liber de natura rerum, an encyclopedia of natural history.1061 – Shen Kuo described the role of predatory insects in protecting crops from insect pests.It has its origins in Plato, Aristotle (in his Historia Animalium), Plotinus and Proclus. Medieval period – the great chain of being, a hierarchical structure of all matter and life thought to be decreed by God, is developed throughout medieval Christianity.847 AD – Rabanus Maurus authors the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis ('On the Nature of Things').77–79 AD – Pliny the Elder publishes Naturalis Historia.For nearly 2000 years the few writers who dealt with zoological subjects followed Aristotle's leading. Parts of Animals on zoological anatomy followed. 343 BC – Aristotle writes History of Animals In this work Aristotle includes insects in a class "Entoma" which also includes the arachnids and the myriapods but not the Crustacea which formed another class "Malacostraca" of the "Anaema" or "bloodless animals." ( Insecta is the Latin translation of Aristotle's Greek εντομον, Entomon. 620–560 BC – Aesop's Fables relate stories of grasshoppers, ants and other insects.Bee-keeping was particularly well developed in Egypt and was discussed by the Roman writers Virgil, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Varro and Columella. ![]() ![]() 1000 BC – A sacred scarab beetle, held to be sacred by the Ancient Egyptians, is painted on wall of Rameses IX's tomb.1800–1700 BC – Bees were significant in other early civilisations, for instance at Malia, Crete, where jewellery depicts two golden bees holding a drop of honey.Įgypt, Greek and Roman empires A scarab beetle, depicted on the walls of Tomb KV6 in the Valley of the Kings.A carving of a cave cricket from the Cave of the Trois-Frères is similarly dated. 13,000 BC – The earliest evidence of man's interest in insects is from rock paintings.13,000 BC found at the junction of Trois-Frères with the Grotte d'Enlène. Prehistory Cave cricket engraved on a fragment of bison bone c. Though many significant developments in the field happened only recently, in the 19th–20th centuries, the history of entomology stretches back to prehistory. 1800–1700 BC, Minoan jewellery, Malia, Crete: two golden bees over a honey combĮntomology, the scientific study of insects and closely related terrestrial arthropods, has been impelled by the necessity of societies to protect themselves from insect-borne diseases, crop losses to pest insects, and insect-related discomfort, as well as by people's natural curiosity. ![]()
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