# naturalhistoryillustration batrachians prittlewellprince onthisday 18thcentury ipswich histparl

In 1611, astronomer Johannes Kepler (above) described the basic notion of the ‘Camera Lucida’.

In 1806, William Hyde Wollaston (below) invented an instrument with a four-sided prism, almost 200 years later. https://t.co/OLiy3RAljp

0 0
2022-09-01

Natural history illustration and the park: Annotated list of the batrachians and reptiles collected by the BOU Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea/GA Boulenger, 1914, BHL/Smithsonian https://t.co/ow7ZjgGXMY

0 0
2021-06-26

John Wollaston the Younger (active between 1742 and 1775) was an English painter

0 5
2020-03-25

Our work on the (with ) and warrior has been nominated in this year's Awards! If you enjoyed these incredible archaeological projects as much as we did, do give us a vote before 10th Feb: https://t.co/F3ttBo6e6U 😊

14 43
2019-12-17

Died 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, unmistakable artist of the He is supposed to have painted this portrait of William Wollaston c.1759; a decade later Wollaston became MP for Read more about him below: https://t.co/c3nbkv7eon

6 9
2019-08-02