Animalium tabula generalis – Vintage Wall Art
![Animalium tabula generalis, [published 1693] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/baac9c249651-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Animalium tabula generalis, a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Animalium tabula generalis
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Rather than a view of a place or event, this engraved table, titled *Animalium tabula generalis*, sets out the animal world as a single branching scheme that sorts creatures by shared characteristics. It appeared as a plate on page 53 of John Ray's *Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis*, published in London in 1693. Ray, an English naturalist, arranged quadrupeds and snakes into ordered groups based on observable features, an approach that helped lay groundwork for later systems of classification. The chart is worth studying for how it reduces a crowded natural world to one page of relationships.
| Created / published | [published 1693] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Charts 1690-1700. |
| Notes | Chart in: Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis / John Ray. Londini : Impensis S. Smith & B. Walford Societas Regiae Typographorum, 1693, p. 53. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 89. |
| Subjects | Zoology--England--London--1690-1700. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,074 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-166263 |
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