Scanned from something, can’t recall the title. Wish I knew. Getcher enormous .tiff here.

picture academic corinthian-girl 3 weeks ago w. 223 notes

Piramide papistique, satiric-allegoric representation of the Roman Church hierarchy as the Serpents of Hell. From a Protestant anti-Papist broadside, Holland, late sixteenth century.

picture academic plant bug aleyma 3 weeks ago w. 468 notes

aleyma:

Johan Christoph Dietzsch, Iris germanica (Blue Iris) with a dragonfly and beetle, 18th century (source).

picture academic anatomy almondseed 1 month ago w. 213 notes

almondseed:

Anatomical description of the arteries

Illustrations by: Josiah F. Flagg (Josiah Foster)

picture academic anatomy premierepage 1 month ago w. 67 notes

premierepage:

Illustrations de Essai sur l’histoire naturelle de Saint-Domingue] / Moithey, grav. ; Favanne Fils, Taré, dess. ; Bartholomaeus Nicolson , aut. du texte, 1776

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2300037m/f6.item