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April 16, 2024
Kate Mothes
Within the early Nineteenth century, German naturalist Lorenz Oken rapidly established himself as a frontrunner within the Naturphilosophie motion, a present of Idealism, which tried to grasp a complete view of nature by investigating its theoretical construction—a precursor to the pure sciences as we all know them at present.
Oken’s seminal work Allgemaine Naturgeschichte Für Alle Stände, or Common Pure Historical past For All Courses, was revealed as a sequence of seven volumes between 1833 and 1843. At greater than 5,000 pages in its entirety, the atlas depicts recognized species starting from beetles and fish to birds and ferns. In lots of instances, bugs or crops are proven in numerous levels of growth, like a butterfly displayed alongside its larval and pupal kinds.
Containing illustrations engraved and printed by a lot of contributors, the vivid portrayal of wildlife and botanicals makes an attempt to categorise comparable specimens, labeling them with each their frequent and scientific names and grouping like examples into compartments.
Discover Oken’s whole Allgemaine Naturgeschichte within the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s digital archive, the place you can even obtain tens of hundreds particular person illustrations. You might also get pleasure from flipping by an eclectic array of uncommon Japanese schoolbooks, admiring Elizabeth Gould’s detailed fowl illustrations.
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#bugs
#nature
#crops
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