: looking around

Maria, you were so ahead of your time! Everyone should look her up. Amazing life story for her era.

unnaturalist:

by Maria Sibylla Merian (April 2, 1647 – January 13, 1717)

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scientificillustration:

Cicada indica now called Tacua speciosa by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India :.
London,Printed for the author by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Messrs, Rivingtons, Str. Paul’s Church Yard; White, Fleet Street, Faulder, Bond Street; and H. D. Symonds, Patersonter Row,1800..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25494957

Love Haeckel’s stuff, despite his recapitulation theory.

jomobimo:

Periphylla, Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 (Earnst Haeckel)

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drawingdetail:

‘Kurze und leichtfaßliche Anleitung zur Bienenzucht und Bienenpflege’ by A. Niemandsfreund; F. Huber, 1831. (via BibliOdyssey)

“Bees, it is said, are the most studied creatures on the planet after man.”

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Artist Lisa Nilsson constructed various cross sections of the human body using only pieces of rolled paper. Click to zoom in on each picture and be amazed.

Annie would like this…

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dendroica:

n46_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Planches enluminées d’histoire naturelle t.1
Paris? :s.n.,1765-1783?
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109376

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rhamphotheca:

Sumpfantilope (Tragelaphus gratus)  = now Wald-Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii gratus)

from Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 100, by Ernst Haekel

Pretty, but still not a document.

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npr:

bitchitoldyouigottaste:

Some photos of WWI veterans with their tin masks, some surviving pieces, and a couple WWI plastic surgery photographs. Sorry if this offends you somehow; I find it fascinating.

Because of advances made in medicine, in WWI far more soldiers were surviving disfiguring facial injuries than ever before; this led to the rise in cosmetic surgery and prosthetics- the masks, though more aesthetically appealing than the early plastic surgery, were unsettling because they obviously didn’t move with the wearer’s face, creating a dead-eyed, doll like look. They fell out of favor by WWII, but many men who had received tin masks kept and used them for life.

I appreciate that they incorporated this bit of history into “Boardwalk Empire” via the Richard Harrow character.

Whoa.

rhamphotheca:

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)

from A monograph of the Phasianidae, Family of the pheasants, 1872, by Daniel G. Elliot

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For Annie and Jennifer E.

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