Fill in the Blanks 316-testOnline version 316-test by Farhad Key 1 uses vellum depicted accurate copperplate a artists as engravings style rendered Woodcuts illustrated From the earliest civilizations , plants and animals have been portrayed a means of understanding and recording their potential , such as their economic and healing properties . From the first catalogue of medicinal plants , De Materia Medica by Dioscorides , in the first century , through to the late fourteenth century , the illustration of plants and animals changed very little . in instructional manuals and herbals were often repeatedly copied over the centuries , resulting in loss of definition and accuracy so that they became little more than stylized decoration . With the growing popularity of , the traditional use of woodcuts declined and the representation of plants and animals became more . Then , with the emergence of such as Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo Da Vinci , naturalists such as Otto Brunfels , Leonhard Fuchs in botany and Conrad Gesner and Ulisse Aldrovandi in zoology , nature began to be in a more realistic . Individual living plants or animals were observed directly and their likeness onto paper or .
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