Animalium Quadrupedum. The Animalium Quadrupedum series of engravings by Adriaen Collaert is hosted by the wonderful Memory of the Netherlands site of which this page of about 15 images forms part of the 16th Century Graphic Art from the Northern and Southern Netherlands section. Flemish draughtsman, engraver and publisher Adriaen Collaert (1560-1618) was thought to have been trained in his engraving techniques by his father-in-law, Philip Galle. Collaert engraved a few nature series such as Animalium Quadrupedum, which were based on his own drawings but the majority of his engraving legacy is devoted to reproductions.
Artcyclopedia. The Jules Rupalley Album. The Miners - Group of miners around well-like shaft in rocky setting[Quirot & Company (active ca. 1851-ca. 1853), lithographer and publisher] California flowering plant - Morning-glory-like plant with six-petalled white flowers Peruvian flowering cactus California flowering Spring plant with roots California flowering vine - Stem with small white flowers, seed pod, and individual seed California flowering plant - Plant with yellow and white flowers, and roots California Snow Flower - Flowering magenta color plant in situ growing from snow California flowering plant - Plant in situ showing broad leaves and pale pink flower, and two details California flowering plant - Plant with five-petalled pink flowers (cropped) California flowering plant - Stem with leaves and large, yellow flowers Chrysalis of a caterpillar Caterpillar eating a morning glory leaf Caterpillars, chrysalises, a butterfly, and insects of California California insect: enemy of tarantula Quail's head Portrait of Indian girl.
Surinam Insect Metamorphosis. The posting online this week of a 1719 edition of Dutch entomologist Maria Sybilla (Sibylla)* Merian's 'Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium' (1705) seemed like an appropriate reason to revisit this exquisite monograph. [see previous entry - Surinam Metamorphosis - for more links and the compelling background to this fifty five year old mother's art/research trip to the South American wilds] "In Holland, I noted with much astonishment what beautiful animals came from the East and West Indies. I was blessed with having been able to look at both the expensive collection of Doctor Nicolaas Witsen, mayor of Amsterdam and director of the East Indies society, and that of Mr.
Jonas Witsen, secretary of Amsterdam.Moreover I also saw the collections of Mr. Fredericus Ruysch, doctor of medicine and professor of anatomy and botany, Mr. Livinus Vincent, and many other people. Schäffer's Insects. 'Abhandlungen von Insecten' (~1760-1770) by Jacob Christian Schäffer (Schaeffer) is online in its entirety at Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. [NYPL has a few of these plates with the full details about the nature of the insects but in german]Previously I posted details from this series. Schäffer was something of a polymath, publishing important works on mycology (with some of the first hand coloured book illustrations), ornithology, optics and prism making and most famously perhaps, his treatises on papermaking experiments using various organic fibre products prompted by a shortage of rags. [And: the 'first' washing machine publication (with images) which I believe was framed as fictitious letters by a woman about clothes washing - I wonder if his papermaking exploits gave rise to this 'invention'?]
He was also curator of a renowned wunderkammer. An illustrated history of trepanation : Neurophilosophy. The operation of Trepan, from Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery: Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism and Lithotomy, by Charles Bell, 1815. (John Martin Rare Book Room at the University of Iowa’s Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.) Trepanation, or trephination (both derived from the Greek word trypanon, meaning “to bore”) is perhaps the oldest form of neurosurgery. The procedure, which is called a craniotomy in medical terminology, involves the removal of a piece of bone from the skull, and it has been performed since prehistoric times. The oldest trepanned skull, found at a neolithic burial site of Ensisheim in France, is more than 7,000 years old, and trepanation was practised by the Ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Romans, Greeks and the early Mesoamerican civilizations.
The procedure is still performed today, for both medical and non-medical reasons. …the contusion, whether the bone be laid bare or not; and the fissure, whether apparent or not. Cereus+Peruvianus. August Menzel 1855 Naturgeschichte der gemeinen Honig- oder Hausbiene, (Apis mellifica L., Abeille domestique, Hive-bee) als Grundlage einer rationellen Bienenzucht edoc Frankfurt.0.jpg (JPEG Image, 571x1024 pixels) - Scaled (42. August Menzel 1855 Naturgeschichte der gemeinen Honig- oder Hausbiene, (Apis mellifica L., Abeille domestique, Hive-bee) als Grundlage einer rationellen Bienenzucht edoc Frankfurt b.1.jpg (JPEG Image, 586x1024 pixels) - Scaled (42. August Menzel 1855 Naturgeschichte der gemeinen Honig- oder Hausbiene, (Apis mellifica L., Abeille domestique, Hive-bee) als Grundlage einer rationellen Bienenzucht edoc Frankfurt c.1.jpg (JPEG Image, 589x1024 pixels) - Scaled (42.
Edward J. Detmold Maeterlinck The Heart of the Flower 1901 or so.1.jpg (JPEG Image, 580x696 pixels) - Scaled (62. The Feminine Monarchie 1623 Charles Butler.jpg (JPEG Image, 681x500 pixels) - Scaled (87. Moses Rusden A Further Discovery of Bees 1679.jpg (JPEG Image, 350x450 pixels) - Scaled (96. John Thorley Melisselogia. Or, the female monarchy. Being an enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees, those admirable, instructive and useful insects. 1744.jpg (JPEG Image, 350x558 pixels) - Scaled (77. Oettl, Johann Nepomuk 1857 Klaus, der Bienenvater aus B??hmen.jpg (JPEG Image, 1000x420 pixels) Kurze und leichtfa??liche Anleitung zur Bienenzucht und Bienenpflege Niemandsfreund, A. ; Huber, Fran??ois 1831.jpg (JPEG Image, 603x1023 pixels) - Scaled (42. 0706140402101moore_5-2.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x480 pixels) 9484553-md.jpg (JPEG Image, 680x453 pixels)
071126_delaware_fog_day_038-edit.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x597 pixels) - Scaled (80%) Rose.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x600 pixels) - Scaled (82%) Little Blue Bee « Nature's Place. I first sighted this one on the flagpole at the edge of the field and coaxed it onto a leaf for placing for a few shots, it’s about 5mm long. It was a cold day and the bee was slow moving. As it looked in need I gave it some honey and it took a little but it seems to have something wrong with its eating gear, it was always out, didn’t retract. It sat still on the leaf for a while then seemed to get restless, in search of something. Eventually I gave it a warm finger to climb on and it was in heaven. Then, all of a sudden, it climbed to the highest point on my hand, stopped and preened its antennae and fanned its wings a few times, then took to the air on the next leg of its epic journey across the small field of grass.
Who knows what happened next, maybe it got home. Well, that’s living isn’t it? Who would have thought a giant would come along and provide for the little one while it recovered enough to be on its way. What little bee could dream such a thing? You never know what’s coming. 3002901643_78b4610eee.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x450 pixels) 20070526161918_img_4575_resize.jpg (JPEG Image, 691x459 pixels)