I was tempted to buy an enormous Italian-language edition of the Comte de Buffon's Uccelli yesterday but would have struggled to carry it home.
http://i.imgur.com/Lxsg6Ee.jpg
― Ethnically Ambiguous / 28 - 45 (ShariVari), Sunday, 5 April 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
i enjoyed the wikipedia entry on comte de buffon
At one point, Buffon propounded a theory that nature in the New World was inferior to that of Eurasia. He argued that the Americas were lacking in large and powerful creatures, and that even the people were less virile than their European counterparts. He ascribed this inferiority to the marsh odors and dense forests of the American continent. These remarks so incensed Thomas Jefferson that he dispatched twenty soldiers to the New Hampshire woods to find a bull moose for Buffon as proof of the "stature and majesty of American quadrupeds".[8] Buffon later admitted his error.
― drash, Monday, 6 April 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
of course the biggest New World mammals were [probably] hunted to extinction long before Europeans ever made it over
http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/small_1x_/public/import/2013/images/2011/01/mammoth.jpg
― Mordy, Monday, 6 April 2015 12:53 (nine years ago) link
this is an excellent revive
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Monday, 6 April 2015 13:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23354/23354-h/images/fig203m.jpgMonstrous pear, showing extension and ramification of the succulent floral axis. The bases of the sepals are also succulent
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23354/23354-h/images/fig162m.jpgin Papaver bracteatum a considerable number of the stamens sometimes become developed into pistils, especially those which are nearest to the centre of the flower, and in these flowers the filaments are said to become the ovaries, while the anthers are curled so as to resemble stigmas
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23354/23354-h/images/fig058s.jpgReceptacle of strawberry prolonged into a leafy branch
― no lime tangier, Monday, 6 April 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
whoops :-(if you want to check em out...
Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
...they were considered as monsters to be shunned, as lawless deviations from the ordinary rule, unworthy the attention of botanists, or at best as objects of mere curiosity. By those whose notions of structure and conformation did not extend beyond the details necessary to distinguish one species from another, or to describe the salient features of a plant in technical language; whose acquaintance with botanical science might almost be said to consist in the conventional application of a number of arbitrary terms, or in the recollection of a number of names, teratology was regarded as a chaos whose meaningless confusion it were vain to attempt to render intelligible,—as a barren field not worth the labour of tillage.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 6 April 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_vault/2015/04/17/LgWildflowerMap.jpg
― Mordy, Saturday, 18 April 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
some great portraits in this slideshow:http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/04/01/an-evolving-view-of-animals/
― Mordy, Sunday, 19 April 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
not exactly related but this person seems to really embrace the same aesthetic/scientific intersection as the people who sell pages from a botanical illustration book on etsy
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150512/humboldt-park/traveling-taxidermy-instructor-opens-chicago-storefront-niche-lab
there is a $400 make your own taxidermied baby skunk class
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
i think i finally decided that i do want an ernst haeckel-inspired tattoo
it only took me almost 14 years!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:45 (three months ago) link
also this thread is a treasure -- i had no recollection of posting so much lol
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:54 (three months ago) link
i was about to say before i even read your comment LL, this is a glorious thread
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link
Tattoo appt is this week!! Could not be more excited.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:22 (two months ago) link
It’s done. Now I want like 60 more.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:26 (two months ago) link
Cool! What did you get?
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:29 (two months ago) link
A radiolarian! If you go to the Project Gutenberg link w Haeckel’s illustrations from the Challenger expedition, it’s top left on plate 81
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 19:36 (two months ago) link
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44527/44527-h/images/plate081.jpg
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 19:37 (two months ago) link
To clarify—It’s my artist’s rendering of the Haeckel illustration.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
Oh, brilliant - I bet that looks amazing.
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 February 2024 22:35 (two months ago) link
an oldie
Always enjoy sharing these brainstem reconstructions by Lewis Weed (1914) - made by tracing outlines on transverse sections, making paper cutouts, stacking them in register and drawing the result ... pic.twitter.com/KmFu7N2Abu— Matt Kirkcaldie (@MKirkcaldie) October 31, 2021
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 February 2024 23:20 (two months ago) link