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Invertebrate zoology:

  • history/developments (link to name pages of those who have wiki articles about them)
    • Early Modern era:
      • Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalum (1551-1587)
        • information from older works; restating the work of Pliny and Aristotle; mixing of old knowledge with own observations[1]
      • Invention of the microscope in 1599
        • Robert Hooke--working out of England/Royal Society
          • observation of insects (including some larval forms) and other invertebrates (i.e. ticks [Arachnids])
          • Micrographia (1665)[2]
      • shift towards experimental efforts following efforts of Sir Frances Bacon
      • Jan Swammerdam--Dutch microscopist
        • worked disproving spontaneous generation
        • advancements in anatomy and physiology
          • in entomology: dissections of insects, observation of internal structures[3]
        • classification of insects based on life histories[4]
          • work toward proof that egg/larva/pupa/adult are same individual
        • support for 'modern' science over blind belief in the work of philosophers of Antiquity[3]
    • 1700s:
      • naming of species that were relevant to economic pursuits, such as farming (pests and pest control)
      • entomology changed greatly and rapidly[5]--many zoologists/naturalists working with hexapods
      • parasitology/worms
        • Nicolas Andry de Boisregard--French physician[5]
          • worms cause disease
          • worms do not spontaneously form in human/animal gut; must be some 'seed' that enters the body and which contains the worm in some form
            • spontaneous generation still argued over
        • Antonio Vallisneri[5]
          • insect reproduction--sawfly
          • parasitic worms--Ascaris and Neoascaris
            • worms from eggs
      • Linnaeus
        • insects and intestinal worms in Systema Naturae (first edition published in 1735)[5]
          • tenth edition as true starting point for modern classification scheme for animals[6]
        • universal system of classification and binomial nomenclature
          • genus and species, but also higher levels of classification[7]
          • study of/investigation into biological diversity[6]
          • based on few characters; artificial system[8]
          • description of named organisms[7]
    • 1800s
      • Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection
        • informed by study of insects while abroad (both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace)[9]
        • many species of invertebrate collected while aboard the Beagle (lots of insects)
          • sexual dimorphism, geographic distribution, mimicry
        • immutability of species major hurdle in acceptance of theory[10]
    • Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969)
      • Wrote many volumes detailing work on invertebrates
      • Awarded Linnean Society Gold Medal for her invertebrate textbooks
      • Did research and furthered knowledge on protozoans, flatworms, and coelenterates [11]
  1. ^ Weiss, Harry B. (1927-01-01). "Four Encyclopedic Entomologists of the Renaissance". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 35 (2): 193–207.
  2. ^ NERI, JANICE (2008-01-01). "Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke's "Micrographia"". Studies in the History of Art. 69: 82–107.
  3. ^ a b Cobb, Matthew (2000-09-01). "Reading and writing The Book of Nature: Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680)". Endeavour. 24 (3): 122–128. doi:10.1016/S0160-9327(00)01306-5.
  4. ^ Beier, Max. "The Early Naturalists and Anatomists During the Renaissance and Seventeenth Century." In History of Entomology, edited by Ray F. Smith, Thomas E. Mittler, and Carroll N. Smith, 90. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc, 1973.
  5. ^ a b c d Egerton, Frank N. (2008-10-01). "A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 30: Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology During the 1700s". The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 89 (4): 407–433. doi:10.1890/0012-9623(2008)89[407:AHOTES]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 2327-6096.
  6. ^ a b Reid, Gordon McGregor (2009-01-01). "Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778): His Life, Philosophy and Science and Its Relationship to Modern Biology and Medicine". Taxon. 58 (1): 18–31.
  7. ^ a b Winsor, Mary P. (1976-01-01). "The Development of Linnaean Insect Classification". Taxon. 25 (1): 57–67. doi:10.2307/1220406.
  8. ^ Tuxen, S L. "Entomology Systematizes and Describes: 1700-1815." In History of Entomology, edited by Ray F. Smith, Thomas E. Mittler, and Carroll N. Smith, 95-118. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc, 1973.
  9. ^ Ross, Herbert H. "Evolution and Phylogeny." In History of Entomology, edited by Ray F. Smith, Thomas E. Mittler, and Carroll N. Smith, 171-84. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc, 1973.
  10. ^ Clark, John F. Bugs and the Victorians. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
  11. ^ Hyman, Libbie (1991). "Libbie Hyman" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)