"Conceived, edited, and designed by Quarto Publishing plc, an imprint of The Quarto Group"--Title page verso. - Includes index
Before the press. From antiquity to the Renaissance ; Leonardo da Vinci : animal as machine ; Albrecht Dürer : the wonderful line -- The horse stripped bare. Cutting and cataloguing : 16th-19th centuries ; Carlo Ruini : Anatomia del cavallo ; George Stubbs : The anatomy of the horse -- Bewildering variety. A pictorial menagerie : 16th-19th centuries ; Volcher Coiter : De partibus similaribus humani corporis ; Georges Cuvier : Le règne animal ; Alfred Brehm ; Tierleben ; Richard Owen : The anatomy of vertebrates -- Embryos and ancestors. Evolution and development in the 19th century. Ernst Haeckel : development of the embryo, development of the race ; Edweard Muybridge : Animal locomotion ; Santiago Ramón y Cajal : Textura del sistema nervioso del hombre y de los vertebrados -- Onward, inward, outward. The wonders of life since 1900 ; D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson : On growth and form
