Ornithology
Aldrovandus's encyclopedic work on birds, one of the earliest comprehensive ornithologies.
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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Verse 22: And He Blessed Them, Saying: Increase and Multiply
— Cited on the phoenix being a fable
"the latest and most exact is Ulysses Aldrovandus, consider the phoenix a fable"
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Verse 22: And He Blessed Them, Saying: Increase and Multiply
— Cited (Book III, p. 244) on vultures: not all female, contra the ancient reports
"following him Aldrovandus, Book III of Ornithology, page 244."