Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations 1 Introduction: Emblems and the Natural World (ca. 1530-1700) Karl Enenkel and Paul J. Smith Part 1: Emblemetic Zoology--Zoological Emblem Books 2 "Natural" or "Unnatural"? Representation of the Animal World in Early French Emblem Books Alison Saunders 3 Camerarius's Quadrupeds (1595): A Plinius Emblematicus as a Mirror of Princes Karl Enenkel 4 Joachim Camerarius's Emblem Book on Birds (1596), with an Excursus on America's Great Seal Paul J. Smith 5 Ichthyology and Emblematics in Conrad Gesner's Historia piscium and Joachim Camerarius the Younger's Symbola et Emblemata Sophia Hendrikx 6 The Daphnic Fate of Camerarius. Sweden's First Printed Emblem Book Revealed in Olof Rudbeck the Younger's Botanical Dissertation (1686) Bernhard Schirg 7 Tradition and Empirical Observation--Nature in Giovio's and Symeoni's Dialogo Dell' Imprese from 1574 Maren C. Biederbick Part 2: Emblem Books on Physical Phenomena 8 Comets--Celestial Objects in the Emblem Tradition of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Sabine Kalff 9 Atmospheric Pressure: Natural Philosophy, Political Didactics and the Exigencies of Praise in Franz Reinzer's Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica (1698) Christian Peters Part 3: The Applied Use of Natural Emblems, Especially in Monarchial and Courtly Contexts 10 Transcending the Natural World: A Developing Sublime in André Félibien's Tapisseries du Roy Frederik Knegtel 11 'Maiestatis Hungariae Aquila': Christoph Lackner and the Hieroglyph of the Habsburg Eagle Agnes Kusler 12 The Secretion of a Pearl as a Symbol for the Birth of a Prince Aline Smeesters 13 The Taming of the Lion: Passions, Power and Religion in Achille Bocchi's Symbolicae Quaestiones (Bologna, 1555) Anne Rolet Part 4: The Hermeneutic and Didactic Use of the Natural World 14 The Sagacity of Owls and the Mimetic Obscurity of Emblems in Joris Hoefnagel's Four Elements Marisa Anne Bass 15 The Owl and the Birds: Speeches, Emblems, and Fountains Astrid Zenkert 16 Hermeneutic Animals--Johann Fischart's Use of Emblems in his German Translation of Rabelais Tobias Bulang 17 Orbis pictus For Boys--Emblematics for Men: Some Remarks on Learning by Studying Pictures and Interpreting Riddles Sonja Schreiner Index Nominum.