Dennis Hansenさんのイラストまとめ

The two middle panels are inspired by/use visual elements from Dürer's The Annunciation (c1510) & The Nativity (1511), respectively

But also, on a more positive note, how the city of Zurich launched an early "social benefits" project in 1586, paying ~300 people, poor & starving after a harsh winter, a wage to build a much-needed road across a large hill. A major road still follows that exact route today.

@bonz_us @DavidEvans_ROM @MarkWitton @TetZoo A few more from the same book - apparently Swiss dragons like to scare passersby in them thar mountains. Meanies.

It contains several Scheuchzer 'Easter eggs' based on frontispieces from his works, including an ibex high up, and a guy digging for fossils.

@Himmapaan At least he was given the right hair colour 😂😂

A really neat detail is that the authors (hi Nicole, Torsten, Heinz et al.!) made an x-ray of the fossil, where the 'Tutankhamun'-mummylike position of the arms & hands, crossed in front of the animal, can be seen 🤓😍 (in suppl.material)

For #FossilFriday, here is the gorgeous draft of Scheuchzer's grand map of Switzerland - with the upper right-hand corner embellished with images of fossils from his collection (ca. 1710, 152x110 cm (!), @ZBZuerich - https://t.co/ZPhvTS4Qej)

@JillWhitelock @rmathematicus @theUL I've always had a soft spot for good old Conrad's juicy strawberries 🤗

Today another Gessner for #FossilFriday - Conrad himself! The famous crab from his 1565 book on fossils ('De omni Rerum Fossilium' - first systematically illustrated book on fossils) still survives today (NHM Basel). Great paper here: https://t.co/YGqK1qN00F

@Geeky_dino @TedRechlin Very much agreed -- and he's also one of the few paleoartists I know that makes paintings featuring only plants. Perhaps even more evocative than 'normal' paleoart that focuses on the animals. Here's an example from his website : Devonian Archaeosigillaria