and science and Maria Merian, "the mother of entomology", was the first to record the full life cycle of many species of butterflies and moths. John Ray publishes Methodus Insectorum. 1710 John Ray publishes Historia insectorum in English, Study of Insects. This is the first attempt at a systematic classification of insect species. Francois Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire writes on the use of spider silk as a textile. This was the first such research. 1715 1715 -Levinus Vincent publishes Wondertooneel der Nature the Wonder Theater of Nature 1717 James Petiver publishes a book on British butterflies entitled Papilionum Brittaniae. 1720 Eleazar Albin publishes A Natural History of English Insects. Charles de Geer born Johann Leonhard Frisch 1720-1738 Beschreibung von allerley Insecten in Teutschland Berlin (1720–1738) 1730 Moses Harris (1730–1788) born in England. Harris was a pioneer of the use of wing venation in insect systematics. 1731 Mark Catesby publishes part one of The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. 1734 Scientist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur publishes the first Mémoires pour Servir à L’Histoire des Insectes in English, "Memoirs Serving as a Natural History of Insects". This is a founding work of entomology, and one of the most important of all zoological works of the 18th century. 1737 Microscopist Jan Swammerdam's Biblia naturae or "Book of Nature" is reissued. Describing his studies of insects, it is a founding work of entomology. It is in Latin. Swammerdam's co-authors were Herman Boerhaave and Hieronymus David Gaubius. 1738 Adolph Modeer born. 1739 John K'Eogh publishes Zoologica Medicinalis Hibernica, in English, "Zoological Medicine in Ireland". 1740 Charles Bonnet discovers parthenogenesis by observing that female aphids could reproduce without fertilization. 1745 Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808) is born. Fabricius worked on all insect orders. Charles Bonnet published his first work on entomology. Entitled Traité d'insectologie, it collected together his various discoveries regarding insects. 1746 August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof publishes Insecten-Belustigung, in English, "Insect Entertainment". 1748 Georg Dionysus Ehret publishes first part of Plantae et Papiliones Depictae. James Dutfield publishes English Moths and Butterflies. 1749 Benjamin Wilkes publishes English Moths and Butterflies. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749–1788) commenced— 36 volumes and 8 additional volumes published after his death by Bernard Germain Étienne comte de La Ville-sur-Illon La Cépède.Until the publication of this encyclopedia it was thought that all animals were created together by God about 6,000