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  • heaveninawildflower: Flora Sinensis - Avis Regia and. Forest Chicken (1656). One of the earliest natural history books about China. Jesuit Missionary author. (obviously includes some non-Chinese {and non-floral}species). This image: Fenghoang (Avis regia) and the “forest chicken”. Michael Boym (Michał Piotr Boym) Bibliothèque Universtaire Moretus Plantin. (Words and image from Wikimedia).

    heaveninawildflower:

    Flora Sinensis - Avis Regia and. Forest Chicken (1656). One of the earliest natural history books about China. Jesuit Missionary author. (obviously includes some non-Chinese {and non-floral}species). This image: Fenghoang (Avis regia) and the “forest chicken”.

    Michael Boym (Michał Piotr Boym)

    Bibliothèque Universtaire Moretus Plantin.

    (Words and image from Wikimedia).

    Tagged: natural history forest chicken illustration art Flora Sinensis Avis Regia Forest Chicken 1600's 17th century China Chinese

    Posted on September 13, 2012 via Heaveninawildflower with 89 notes

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