Greg Priest (@gregpriest.bsky.social)さんのイラストまとめ

I also have a copy of Edward’s Elementary Geology, acquired when I was working on the history of tree of life diagrams. Image below.

Orra was a remarkable figure. Amherst has a lot of her illustrations digitized in its collection of her papers (two here): https://t.co/SWGeE7gXN2 https://t.co/ZznvPC5ecn

Beautiful illustrations by Orra White Hitchcock here.

An early tree of life image was published as part of her husband Edward’s Elements of Geology (1840). I suspect, though I’ve never been able to confirm, that Orra drew the tree image as well.

https://t.co/QfP1tFwAUt

“The fact that he has accidentally portrayed plant-forms when he was studying human evolution is an assurance to Mr. Betts of the fitness of the symbols he has developed, as it affords presumptive evidence that the laws he is studying intuitively admit of universal application.” https://t.co/YrXwSWiFHD

Wonderfully disturbing thread of completely bonkers Victorian Christmas cards. The past truly is a foreign country.

Here are three of my favorites, but the whole thread is fabulous. https://t.co/Y1ebvaYnCb

Fabulous illustrations of mythical creatures in this, from @atlasobscura.

It is claimed that the image below left is Obibi, “a crafty and tricky monster of the Acholi culture in northern Uganda.”

I’m pretty sure, though, that it’s a Wild Thing.

https://t.co/dfOFZhXAiD

@AlisaBokulich Not a curve as such, but Edward Hitchcock’s 1840 paleontological chart from Elementary Geology conveys something similar: “The comparative abundance or paucity of the different families, is shown by the greater or less space occupied by them upon the chart.”

#HistSTM

Lord Kelvin was the first to call the being a “demon,” alluding to the Greek idea of a supernatural “daemon” rather than to the Christian idea of an evil minion of Satan.

Nevertheless, most images of Maxwell’s demon render him devilish. 2/2 #HistSci

Humansplaining

#TheFarSide

Cool new paper on the state of the science on convergent evolution (at least 5 separate times) of the crab body plan.

https://t.co/tv4LwoeVRz

I’d never seen this before. It’s interesting to think about it in comparison to Minard’s more famous map and chart of Napoleon’s less successful winter retreat from Moscow. https://t.co/QFpFqAuKvd