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Detail from an illustration comparing the hedgehog and the porcupine, in Claude Perrault’s 1676 Memoires pour servir a l’histoire naturelle des animaux.
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Images from a series of cards that depict dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The cards were issued by Kakao-Compagnie Theodor Reichardt, a German chocolate company.
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Edward Donovan, 1799, The natural history of British shells.
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A cicada species.
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Neon moiré.
Throughout “The Miami Aquarium and Biological Laboratory”, reprinted by National Geographic Magazine (1921). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford University library artifacts).
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Plates left folded through digitization.
Throughout Nature Displayed in the Heavens and On the Earth by Simeon Shaw (1823). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 11, 2008.
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Image transferred from uncovered opposite plate.
From p. 289 of Nature Displayed in the Heavens and On the Earth by Simeon Shaw (1823). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 11, 2008.
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Turning page.
From p. 124 (?) of The Diseases of Women with Child by François Mauriceau and Hugh Chamberlen (1727). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized November 19, 2009.
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n30_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
The European river lamprey - Lampetra fluviatilis
