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elephants and ducks

in "le secret de l'histoire naturelle [...]", illuminated manuscript, france, 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, Français 22971, fol. 31r

for more medieval elephants go check out @medieval-elephants! :)

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Church of Whale Fall

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berlinde de bruyckere

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Unknown, Woodcut, 1930′s

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Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (Japanese, 1831–1889)

Kyōsai Sketchbook (Kyōsai manga) 暁斎漫画

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1881 (Meiji 14)

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I bought 113 million year old fossil last year and I just forget about it. It's older than the rings of Saturn and it's on a shelf next to a fake plant.

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Late Medieval; 14th century Iron key: broached stem; pentagonal bow; large web.

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Snow patrol, Kawase Hasui

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Kimono (Kosode), Japan, 1840-1860

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Many books decorate their endpapers with paper marbling, a method of using color patterns floating in liquid to dye paper. This particularly vibrant example is from a copy of Linnaea entomologica bd.8.

Full text here.

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DADA “Light My Fingers” candle by Claire Olshan

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A beginner’s star-book, an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope, 1912

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x-ray of shells Photography By: George Green

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KATHY LAM 黑山

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Gold and sapphire ring, Roman, 1st century AD

from Christies