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  • heaveninawildflower: Konrad von Megenberg  (1309–1374).  Hand-coloured woodcut from Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) - “He nach volget das Puch der Natur” - Augsburg: H. Bamler, 1475 The scholar and cleric Konrad von Megenberg compiled his encyclopedic Book of Nature in the fourteenth century from a number of earlier authorities. The fifth chapter discusses 89 plant species arranged in no particular order. The woodcuts are the first printed depictions of plants presented for botanical rather than decorative purposes. http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html Wikimedia

    heaveninawildflower:

    Konrad von Megenberg  (1309–1374).

     Hand-coloured woodcut from Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) - “He nach volget das Puch der Natur” - Augsburg: H. Bamler, 1475 The scholar and cleric Konrad von Megenberg compiled his encyclopedic Book of Nature in the fourteenth century from a number of earlier authorities. The fifth chapter discusses 89 plant species arranged in no particular order. The woodcuts are the first printed depictions of plants presented for botanical rather than decorative purposes.

    http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html

    Wikimedia

    Tagged: botanical illustration botanical nature book illustration Medieval Konrad von Megenberg Nature book woodcuts woodcut 1300's 14th century plants Book of Nature

    Posted on October 1, 2012 via Heaveninawildflower with 170 notes

  • moschops911: Uncharted Waters by seriykotik1970 on Flickr.

    moschops911:

    Uncharted Waters by seriykotik1970 on Flickr.

    Tagged: ichthyosaur Erebus Terror Ross plesiosaur Pym Poe Southern Ocean Victorianism 19th Century surreal gothic woodcuts Max Ernst Mr Serious digital collage

    Posted on June 22, 2012 via messages from the permian with 355 notes

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