Scientific Illustration

heaveninawildflower:

Goat and Camel plus three toads taken from ‘The Tudor Pattern Book’. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1504.

Between circa 1520 and 1530.

http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/view/

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heaveninawildflower:

Das Kamel.  Watercolour from the “Bestiarium” by Aloys Zötl, 15. July 1846.

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heracliteanfire:

Hendrik Goltzius, 1573-1616 (via British Museum)

Camel by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Johnson’s household book of nature,.
New York,H.J.Johnson,[1880].
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39742357

The Dromedary by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Brehm’s Life of animals : Volume 1, Mammalia
Chicago :Marquis,1895.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9885833

yajifun:

takudako

橐駝考　它山唐公愷 稿　安西武臣虎吉 校　口絵は関思亮の写　1824年

“　堤它山（１７８３－１８４９）は江戸時代後期の儒者で、文政４年（１８２１）に渡来したラクダに触発されて、本書を出版した。江戸の文人・山崎美成（１７９６－１８５６）が校閲をし、序文を寄せている。巻頭のラクダの絵は、書家の関思亮（１７９６－１８３０）による。文字はオランダ通詞の吉雄忠次郎（１７８７－１８３３）が書いたもので、〝Kameel pleister Zonder Weerga.〟（天下無比のラクダの石膏）とある。 ” 総合図書館貴重書展2011展示資料一覧

“橐駝は正名なり。駱駝の駱ハ。橐と聲ちかきが故に訛（あやま）れるなり。馲は橐と同しなれとも俗字なり。”

“橐ハもと橐囊の橐にて。鄭玄か詩箋に。小なるを橐といひ。大なるを囊といふの橐なり。橐装と連言すれハ。直に旅の行装荷擔の事になる。公劉の干橐干囊とある。則旅行の事なり。”

“アリヤス 蘭人の名。曰。駝ハ畜類なれとも。親子交合の耻（はつ）へきを知る。昔駝をやしなふ者あり。目を掩ひ欺きて母子交らしめしかハ。後に覚て大に恚（いか）り。主人を嚼殺したりとそ。” p9

biomedicalephemera:

Camelus bactrianus - Bactrian Camel

Ignore the title (“Camelus Bactrianus seu Dromedarius”), since all the camels depicted here are Bactrian.

One of the background images seems to be depicting a camel “kushing” (kneeling) on a struggling human, with an erect phallus. All camels become significantly more aggressive during breeding season, and the domesticated Bactrian camel has been described as “impossible to control” during that period. Obviously humans have managed to breed out some aggression/train many male Bactrian camels over the centuries, so “impossible” seems a bit hyperbolic, but even experienced handlers note that it’s much easier to avoid the males than train them. 

The second background figure depicts…camels? Doing…something? I’m pretty sure camels don’t make a habit of sitting on their haunches facing each other, and I know for a fact that they don’t mate any differently than other camels, so I really don’t know. Maybe they’re just having a bit of a cuddle. Anyone knowledgeable on camelid behavior?

A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts. Joannes Jonstonus, 1678.

microecos:

From JG and T Wood (1882) Hughes’s Illustrated Anecdotal Natural History

uncertaintimes:

Bernhard von Breidenbach, Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, 1486.

petrus.agricola

Under the illustration we read:
Hec animalia sunt veraciter depicta sicut vidimus in terra sancta
These animals are truely reproduced like we saw them in the Holy Land

(via heracliteanfire)