Jacopo Berengario da Carpi

Jacopo Berengario da Carpi: Isagogae breues, perlucidae ac uberrimae, in anatomiam humani corporis a communi medicorum academia usitatam

Gerrard King

skullspiration.com

darwin's cladogram tree

(3D printing) Darwin’s Cladogram Tree with Finches, by Joaquin Baldwin:

"Charles Darwin’s first ever sketch of a tree of life, in the shape of an actual tree, with finches perched on the branches. Each branch and minute detail of Darwin’s original drawing is represented, and each finch represents the A, B, C and D marks on his sketch. The sketch appeared in his private notebook (“Notebook B on the transmutation of species,” 1837–1838).

If you look carefully, you’ll notice that each finch is slightly different, and the more apart they are from each other in the evolutionary tree, the more distinct the differences are.”

marine fauna lithographs

http://www.rubylane.com/item/429-col-9345/2-Chromo-Lithographs-Marine-Fauna

the dali museum in st. pete is wonderful

http://thedali.org/home.php

William Heath and the Thames

An etching by William Heath depicting a woman dropping her tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents found in a magnified drop of Thames water. In the nineteenth century, sewage and waste contaminated the River Thames in London, making it a prime source of water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

From Wellcome Collection via Cabinet Magazine issue 44

Illustration from The Naturalist’s Cabinet by Thomas Smith

monkey skeleton

Natural history of the quadrupeds; skeleton of a monkey, engraving in the 200-and-some-volume Methodical Encyclopedia by Order of Subject Matter, a 50-year-long re-edit of Diderot’s Encyclopédie that began in 1782. 

Mike Dubois

giraffe

Giraffe, printed by Hans Adam (Nuremberg), based on an original drawing by Melchior Lorck who had seen the animal in Constantinople in 1559.

A Monster Born of a Ewe

prints on dictionary paper

etsy

cotopaxi eruption

Cotopaxi in eruption in 1743.

From Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator, by Edward Whymper, New York, 1892.

20,000 leagues under the sea

intelligence is enormously sexy

frenchie braid

van den boom

Eric van den Boom

flowers in the attic

eric drooker

sociology of the hipster

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Greif-t.html?_r=1