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The illustrations below come from German scientist Reinhard Brauns' 1903 book, Das Mineralreich (The Mineral Kingdom). Google Books offers the English translation of this two-volume work, which has 73 colored plates in total. 
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These sketches, by a Confederate prisoner kept at Point Lookout, Maryland, were made in 1864.
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These watercolors of herbs and plants useful to doctors are from an Italian edition of ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides' De Materia Medica, reissued with commentary, additional material, and new illustrations sometime between 1564 and...
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When looking for an image for the 4th of July, I found many wonderful images, but I wanted something more than just fireworks. I wanted an image that showed people celebrating together despite their differences.
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Ernst Haeckel, a German naturalist around the mid-1800s, used simple microscopes to draw the skeletons of single-celled plankton found in all the oceans of the world. His exquisite drawings capture the incredible, mind-boggling intricacy of this sea life in a way photographs cannot. These found forms resemble aliens from another planet, yet they are strongly organic and biological. For the past century Haeckel’s meticulous renderings have served as inspiration and guides for architects, designers, scientists, and engineers – and probably science fiction authors.
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