This Pegasus is about to break free of its star map and the fish is thinking, “here we go again…”
John Seller, Atlas Coelestis (London, 1677).
This celestial atlas is full of plates that are folded and bound into this little book to use under the starry skies. See the book in person as part of The Living Book: New Perspectives on Form and Function, on display in our main gallery through January 5, 2018.
My birthday gift (early).
I will proceed to be INCREDIBLY normal about this
some stuff i've learned by skimming through this book:
I need to show y'all some of the photos because these things can be FREAKY looking. Seriously they look so alien. I'm obsessed
The freshwater genus Hislopia can reproduce by just...breaking off some guys, and they swim for a while before settling down and cloning themselves to make a new colony. What
fences, spirals, and whatever the hell that last one is doing on that crinoid stem
Here are the crawly guys
Team work makes the dream work
Oh my god oh my god I've never seen what those walking ones actually look like walking I had no idea they lifted up on little legs I NEED THEM
Gone, but not forgotten! The dodo went extinct in the 1600s, when people and other predators invaded its island home. Mauritius, east of Madagascar, is the only place dodos ever lived.🦤
While the birds died out before photography, their skeletons offer clues to what they were like. For example, this bird couldn’t fly—it had small wings for a bird of its size, its sternum has no keel (the support birds need for flight muscles), and it had thick leg bones made for walking. See this specimen up close in the Hall of Biodiversity!
Photo: D. Finnin/© AMNH
#dodo #musuems #amnh #NaturalHistory #extinction #biodiversity #birds #AnimalFacts (at American Museum of Natural History)
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Head (porphyritic diorite) of an ancient Egyptian cow goddess, perhaps Hathor or Mehetweret. Artist unknown; ca. 1390-1352 BCE (reign of Amenhotep III, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Papilio crino.
SciArt from An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China (1798) by Edward Donovan.
View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the University Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for digitizing.
Hideo Takeda —Two Tattooed Men with Koi Carp & Dragon Tattoos, Stringing a Box Kite (silkscreen, ca. 1980)
brigitttt
lambergeier
i keep trying to reread wyrd sisters but i can't get further than this cause every time i see it i have to turn my phone off and close my eyes for twenty minutes.....this is SO funny. you just know there's a little recipe book in goodie maysherestinpeace whemper's old cottage with an entry that says RECIPE FOR HOT LEAD BONES: step one you get some lead step two you put it in their bones
