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Yesterday i also found John James Audubon’s “Birds of America”. Seriously this book was huge. (at Cooper Union - Foundation Building)
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Employee holds plate closed. Discovered by Christina Paik of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
From the back matter of A Description of the Mermaid, Now Offered to the Inspection of the Public, which was Found on Board a Native Vessel in the Archipelago of the Malaccas, and Carried to Batavia in a Dutch Ship (date unknown). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 18, 2009.
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Plate left folded.
From p. 108 (?) of An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford by John Keill (1739). Original from Ghent University. Digitized January 22, 2008.
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Plate left folded.
From A Treatise on the Ananas or Pine-apple by Adam Taylor (1769). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 15, 2006.
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Moiré in color spectrum charts.
From The Theory of Color and Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry by Wilhelm von Bezold (1876). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 15, 2008.
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This is a picture of an illustrated plate of Campinariae from an 1840s work by Haeckel. It’s right next to a glass model of the same organism, handmade in roughly the 1880s by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, who used Haeckel’s work as a reference.
Both book and glass model are part of the incredible collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and for the past couple of months I have had the privilege and the pleasure of collecting, describing, cataloging, and now exhibiting these remarkable glass objects that unite art and science in single forms.
I’m putting together a small exhibit of our Blaschkas that will go live in the next few weeks - this plate/model match is just one of many amazing things about this project I hope to share with you soon.
(Coll. 2012.027)
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European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
Pictures of bird life
London :S. H. Bousfield,1903.
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Hedgehog from Thomas Pennant’s 1766 British Zoology.
