Scientific Illustrations
July 6, 2006 9:55 PM Subscribe
Where can I find vintage scientific illustrations online, along the lines of these? Images of flora, fauna, human anatomy, sea creatures, and the like.
There's something I like about the precise and detailed look of these, so if there's anything similar to it that you care to share such as prints of architecture or landscapes or machines, please feel free to share! Hi-res images are highly preferred when possible.
There's something I like about the precise and detailed look of these, so if there's anything similar to it that you care to share such as prints of architecture or landscapes or machines, please feel free to share! Hi-res images are highly preferred when possible.
John James Audubon did hundrends of plates of birds.
Wikipedia also has a lot of them in their articles about various phylums, orders, families etc. if you do a bit of poking around.
posted by borkingchikapa at 10:06 PM on July 6, 2006
Wikipedia also has a lot of them in their articles about various phylums, orders, families etc. if you do a bit of poking around.
posted by borkingchikapa at 10:06 PM on July 6, 2006
Look in the colophons at the back of O'Reilly books and see where they got theirs?
posted by AmbroseChapel at 10:17 PM on July 6, 2006
posted by AmbroseChapel at 10:17 PM on July 6, 2006
Gray's Anatomy has over a thousand illustrations - it's wealth of illustration was unprecedented, and since it's out of copyright now, you can pick up copies for a few dollars.
posted by -harlequin- at 10:48 PM on July 6, 2006
posted by -harlequin- at 10:48 PM on July 6, 2006
Seconding BiblioOdyssey. (It's by fellow MeFite peacay.)
posted by easternblot at 11:04 PM on July 6, 2006
posted by easternblot at 11:04 PM on July 6, 2006
Ooh, thanks for the plug. inactivist, the easiest way to find stuff is via delicious - all the posts are annotated.
posted by peacay at 7:11 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by peacay at 7:11 AM on July 7, 2006
And wow! Thanks hortense, I somehow missed that. Beautiful!!
posted by peacay at 7:28 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by peacay at 7:28 AM on July 7, 2006
Ooo, BibliOdyssey is gorgeous, thanks! Lots of good stuff here, too.
posted by dpcoffin at 9:56 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by dpcoffin at 9:56 AM on July 7, 2006
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posted by extrabox at 9:59 PM on July 6, 2006