Johann Friedrich Naumann spent a lifetime watching birds in the fields and forests of Saxony. In 1841, he and Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert published Naturgeschichte der Vögel in Bildern — hand-coloured copper engravings designed to bring the living forest into the homes and schoolrooms of a generation. This is the story of a man who taught Europe to see its birds.
In 1795, Leipzig engraver C.G. Geisler produced one of the most visually compelling charts of Enlightenment botany: Classis XIX Syngenesia, the Linnaean class of fused anthers. A look at the science, the sunflower, and the art of making knowledge beautiful.
The Fused Anthers: Linnaeus, Geisler, and the Botanical Order of Syngenesia Read More »
Discover how Carl Linnaeus’s sexual system brought order to botanical classification, and explore Johannes Gessner’s 18th-century illustration plate for Classis II. Diandria.
Classis II. Diandria: How Linnaeus Taught the World to Read a Flower Read More »
