18C French botanist Jeanne Baret was first woman to circumnavigate the globe, posing as a man on Bougainville’s expedition (1766-69), by enlisting as a valet/assistant to the ship’s naturalist Philibert Commerçon, with whom she had a previous long-term relationship

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In 1679 naturalist & illustrator Maria Merian published "The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars", the first work looking at animal-plant relationships, making her the first ecologist. She was also the first to record insect metamorphosis. https://t.co/N1sbpNvPUU

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says: «This garden is a collection of techniques and varied artistic instruments (from naturalistic illustration to abstraction). A garden open to any curious reader who wants to know more about the silences around him and change perspective»

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We finally got around writing a report for our residency: https://t.co/fedNS1CuIP
Did I mention I fell in love with hermit crabs? 🦀#sciart

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127/365 – This art tangent is so cathartic ☺️💀☺️I am determined to not skip a day of drawing while I’m on vacation. 😬 •




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Rita Cortês de Matos, Julia Porotov i Larissa Ribeiro Lourenço Fernandes són les guanyadores de la sisena edició de , premis internacionals d'il·lustració científica i naturalista

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Salmon, anyone? Color plate from ‘British Salmonidae’ by the noted naturalist Sir William Jardine, seventh Baronet of Applegirth. Lot 317. Exhibition today. Timed online-only auction ends Thursday at https://t.co/sIWigiO4bb

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What's the big deal about John James Audubon? Uh, everything if you are interested in ornithology (birds!), art and naturalism. In fact, Audubon literally wrote the book! https://t.co/TlyIxeDTq6

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This bird's for you, John James Audubon! We go full-on avian art in this with one of the most painters (with a naturalist twist) of all time. https://t.co/2tHbt6wSqZ

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He (Hicks) has arrived at a place of sunny uplands, a tempting and naturalistic world, delicious in its rural realities, in the direct clarity of its imagery, the full glare of its primary palette- the creation of a world directly observed

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Born in Boston, Massachusetts ~ American painter, naturalist, teacher of art ~

Abbott Handerson Thayer ~ 1849~1921

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de 1976 muere la soviética de su país en recibir el grado de doctor en ciencias geológicas y mineralógicas (1935), fue vicepresidenta de la Sociedad de naturalistas de Moscú. Fue galardonada con la Orden de Lenin

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The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed in 1898 when naturalised American seaman Joshua Slocum returns to Newport, Rhode Island in the 'Spray', having set out from Boston on 24th April 1895

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator

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Dragons V Elephants. There was an eternal battle between Elephants & Dragons in India according to Pliny the Elder, a 1st century A.D. Roman natural philosopher & military officer in his encyclopedia (Naturalis Historia) The myth loitered for 1400 years.

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