Maria Popovaさんのイラストまとめ

Gorgeous illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of medicinal plants, by a young 18th-century woman who taught herself art and botany to feed her infant and get her husband out of debtor's prison https://t.co/LaTPLKA2kh

A Curious Herbal – peek inside the world's first encyclopedia of medicinal plants, illustrated by a young woman who, to get her husband out of debtor's prison, taught herself art and botany in an era when women had no access to education in either https://t.co/LaTPLKA2kh

The Moral of Flowers – a Victorian encyclopedia of poetic lessons from the garden, gorgeously illustrated by a female artist in an era when there were almost none https://t.co/Z2PIoXk1fa

Every Color of Light – a stunning Japanese illustrated celebration of change, the sky, and the fullness of life even at its stormiest https://t.co/CReGK0lEA6

Until the end of the 19th century, scientists believed life couldn't exist below 300 fathoms. Then one pioneering expedition found strange and wondrous creatures in the deep. Here they are illustrated, the world's first encyclopedia of deep-sea cephalopods https://t.co/QuPtIrwfSP

The otherworldly beauty of jellyfish – how Ernst Haeckel, who coined "ecology" and inspired Darwin, turned unfathomable personal loss into transcendent art drawn from the mysteries of science https://t.co/kqZ5GGdgeU

Nietzsche, who died 120 years ago today, on truth, lies, and how we use language both to conceal and to reveal reality https://t.co/tG6gLwqX19

They are seaborne butterflies, gilled and finned peacocks, psychedelic dragons of the ocean, candy-colored aliens, Earth’s proudest freak-flags, floating cosmoses of wonder. They are undulating living poems. They are now face masks. (Benefiting, as usual, The Nature Conservancy.) https://t.co/y0sEkCHAlj

The great astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in STEM and was born on this day in 1818, on friendship: https://t.co/2K1YEdLw65

Remembering Antoine de Saint-Exupéry with his original watercolors for The Little Prince, which was published shortly after he vanished over the sea on this day in 1944 piloting a French reconnaissance airplane https://t.co/KbUNzw9OlC