Biology And Theology In Franzius’s Historia Animalium Sacra (1612)
Biology And Theology In Franzius’s Historia Animalium Sacra (1612)
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弗朗齐乌斯的《神圣动物史》中的生物学和神学 (1612)
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10.1163/ej.9789004131880.i-657.36
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2007
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Vibeke Roggen
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Vibeke Roggen
In 1612, the protestant theologian Wolfgang Franzius published a book entitled Historia animalium sacra . The book demonstrates that Franzius was genuinely interested in the life of animals; as Anne Baumer observes, he described all groups of animals, whether they were apt for allegorical use or use in sermons or not. Franzius's treatment of biological problems is interesting in itself. Moreover, the Historia animalium sacra was a work with great influence on the Protestant Northern Europe throughout the seventeenth century and in the beginning of the eighteenth. Franzius was driven by a wish to find out how the animals really live and to teach this to his fellow clergymen and students. In the treatment of his sources, Franzius used reason and logics; he did not accept the conclusions of authorities without testing them. Keywords: Anne Baumer; biology; Historia Animalium Sacra ; theology; Wolfgang Franzius