#scientific illustration

Muscles and Blood-Vessels

Muscles and blood-vessels of the head, neck, chest, arm and hand of an écorché, with two details, showing the face and foot. Color engraving by Antonio. Serantoni, ca. 1816. Publication/Creation: G. Marenigh, 1816.

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By Cognitive Surplus

Anatomically Illustrated Notebooks

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Color Me With Life

Geometric heart, woodburning with vibrant colors. By Megan(unstrungstudios). Follow the artist here.

Little Dragonfly with Water Blue

Art Nouveau vase by Stephanie Young of Calmwater Designs.

Throwback Thursday- art of the forest

Art Nouveau vase by Stephanie Young of Calmwater Designs

Snacktime!

Shoo fly it’s a trap! Art Nouveau vase by Stephanie Young of Calmwater Designs

Illustration from 昆蟲世界 = The insect world v.4 (1900).

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Watercolor illustrations of flowers from Philip Henry Gosse’s 1844 sketchbook Referenda for Jamaica, rough sketches of plants & animals to help in identification.

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Illustrations of hummingbirds from Philip Henry Gosse’s Referenda for Jamaica, rough sketches of plants & animals to help in identification(1844).

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A rotund pika from Peter Simon Pallas’s 1778 book Novae species qvadrvpedvn e Glirivm ordine.

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A rather surly-looking long-eared hedgehog (referred to in the text as a great eared hedgehog) from Georges Cuvier’s The animal kingdom : The class Mammalia v.2 (1827).

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An assortment of foxes from Hugh Craig’s The Animal Kingdom v.1 (1897).

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Some colorful birds (sparrows, queleas, and weavers) from Karl Russ’s Die fremdländischen Stubenvögel Bd.1 (1879).

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A group of southern rockhopper penguins in their preferred environment from Carl Chun’s Aus den tiefen des weltmeeres(1903).

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An illustration of bryozoans from Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s The World of the Sea [1869]. Referred to in the text as an “animal moss”, these animals live in sedentary colonies and are often mistaken for plants.

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A spiky isopod (Akermania besucheti) with an illustration of what its outer shell looks like under electron microscope from Revue suisse de zoologie t.86 (1979).

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A real life instance of a scientist attempting to reanimate dead tissue with electricity from Giovani Aldini’s Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme (1804).

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An illustration of a Hawaiian Nohu fish (also known as a scorpionfish) from David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian fishes.

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