Happy Title Page Thursday! We’re rather fond of this decorative vignette that appears on the t
Happy Title Page Thursday! We’re rather fond of this decorative vignette that appears on the title page of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae. This work deals with biological classification, so it is appropriate that it features all kinds of living creatures - we can see a good mixture vertebrates and invertebrates, mammals and reptiles and insects - with an allegorical representation of Nature - that would be the many-breasted woman - watching over the scene. -- source link
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