The History of Our British Butterflies

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Excerpt from The History of Our British Butterflies: Containing a Full Bibliographical Notice of Each Species, With Copious Extracts From the Old Authors, And Full Descriptions of All the British Species, Their Eggs, Caterpillars, Chrysalides and VarietiesWith Aristotle, however, begins the real history of science and how much soever he may have erred on particular points, the greatness of his conceptions and the justness of his ideas on the whole, entitle him to our high veneration. His labours in the investigation of the animal kingdom have laid the founda tion of the knowledge we now possess, and it cannot sufficiently be regretted that we have only an imperfect account of his discoveries. Theophrastus, the worthy disciple of Aristotle, has given as the first scientific views of thevegetable and mineral kingdoms. These two great men stand unrivalled as the only philosophical naturalists of antiquity of whom we have any satis factory knowledge.Several ages after came Pliny, who has transmitted to us, so far as he was able, all that was known of natural history at the time in which he lived. Apollodorus, as Pliny informs us, was the first monographer of insects, since he wrote a treatise upon scorpions, and described nine species. Elian also, amongst other animals, mentions insects. From him we learn incidently that artificial ¿ies were sometimes used by Grecian anglers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.