Heck’s Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science (Dover Pictorial Archive, Vol. 3)

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Based on J. G. Heck’s Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon, published in German in the nineteenth century, the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art was once a monumental six-volume compilation of illustrations and information, covering an enormous range of subjects, from architecture to zoology. Among its most remarkable features were the thousands of superb steel engravings, comprising probably the most extensive pictorial archives ever published in a single work.
The present book, one of three separate and independent volumes according to the rare original American edition of 1851, is devoted to nature and science. Over 170 beautifully reproduced plates contain thousands of illustrations depicting an peculiar array of subjects: mathematical and geometrical problems; surveying instruments, astronomical maps, and instruments; planetary systems in step with Ptolemy, the Egyptians, Copernicus, and others; positions of the planets; botanical illutrations of scores of plants — including seed pods, fruits, and other parts; physical and meteorological illustration demonstrating many laws and principles; a large number of types of physical and chemical apparatus; animals, minerals, fossils, geological formations; human anatomy; and lots of other images. A descriptive table of contents is keyed to numbered illustrations on every plate.
Artists, illustrators, and any person in need of precisely rendered, royalty-free science or nature illustrations will welcome this practically inexhaustible wealth of straight away usable art.


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