Aristotle on the Cock

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Aristotle’s History of Animals describes the cock in detail, distinguishing the fighting strains and noting the ‘game’ qualities that the cockfighter would later codify.

Kunstformen der Natur

Sun, 01 Jan 1899 00:00:00 +0000

date: 1899-01-01

A plate from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), the German naturalist’s magnum opus of biological illustration. Haeckel’s plates — symmetrical, ornamental, drawn with the precision of a scientific draughtsman and the eye of an Art Nouveau designer — set the standard for the marriage of science and ornament in the early twentieth century.

Natural-History on The Gamecock Codex

Aristotle on the Cock

Kunstformen der Natur