this century. 1503 The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany has accurate marginal illustrations of plants and insects 1505 Albrecht Dürer paints a stag-beetle. 1551 Zoologist Conrad Gesner publishes the first volume of Historia animalium or History of Animals. The work includes some mention of insects. 1556 Guillaume Rondelet a professor in Montpellier publishes De insectis et zoophytis liber. 1575 Joris Hoefnagel begins Animalia Rationalia et Insecta finished 1580. 1578 Li Shizhen includes very many insects amongst the 1000 animals described in Bencao Gangmu. 17th century 1602 Ulisse Aldrovandi's Animalibus insectis libri septem, cum singulorum iconibus AD vivum expressis published. This work was devoted to the insects and some other invertebrates 1609 The Feminine Monarchie is published by Joseph Barnes, Oxford, the first full-length English-language book about beekeeping. The title expresses the main idea that the colony is governed, not by a king-bee, as Aristotle claimed, but by a queen-bee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Butler_(beekeeper) 1630 Jacob Hoefnagel Diversae Insectarum Volatium icones ad vivum accuratissimè depictae per celeberrimum pictorem. (Amsterdam), Nicolao Ioannis Visscher. 1634 Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum by Thomas Muffet with Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny posthumously published – Contains first image of butterfly from North America, a woodblock print from a painting by John White in 1587. 1646 Wenceslaus Hollar publishes Muscarum scarabeorum in Antwerp 1653 Joannes Jonstonus Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium: Insectorum, Tabulis Viginti Octo ab Illo Celeberrimo Mathia Meriano, Aeri Incisis Ornatum ex Scriptoribus tam Antiquis, Quam Recentioribus – Heilbrunnensis: Franciscus Iosephus Eckebrecht, 1757 (Heilbrunnensis : Ioh. Adami Sigmundi): a compilation of Konrad Gesner's (1516–1565) and Ulisse Aldrovandi's (1522–1605) natural histories but plates engraved by Matthäus Merian. 1654 Eleanor Glanville is born. 1655 Samuel Hartlib wrote The Reformed Commonwealth of Bees 1662 – (Between 1662 and 1667) Jan Goedart publishes Metamorphosis and historia naturalis illustrating, by copper plate engravings, the metamorphosis of various insects. 1664 Robert Hooke publishes Micrographia. 1668 Erasmus Finx Erasmi Francisci Ost- und West- Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-garten mit Einem Vorgespräch von Mancherley Lustigen Discursen; in Drey Haupt-theile Unterschieden. Nürnberg in verlegung J. A. Endters und Wolfgang dess jüngern sel. erben. 1669 Microscopist Jan Swammerdam publishes History of Insects correctly describing the reproductive organs of insects and metamorphosis. The anatomist Marcello Malpighi publishes a treatise on the structure and development of the silkworm, the first description of the anatomy of an invertebrate. 1674 Johann Daniel Major Catalogus oder Index Alphabeticus von