Paul D Stewart / European Brown Bear (Ursos arctos arctos) kills hunter who has taken her cubs. 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) bear attack, folio copper engraving drawn by a team...

Paul D Stewart / Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733). The ape is contrasted to 'Hairy Esau' in this folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers unde...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733). Creation of Man from Dust (Homo ex humo) folio copper engraving with later hand colouring drawn by a team of engravers under the d...

Paul D Stewart / Portait of Albertus Seba, the Dutch pharmacist and collector of natural rarities, age 66 (b. May 12th 1665 - d. May 2nd 1736). Portrait with tinting, showing off rarities from his collection acquired...

Paul D Stewart / 'The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation' by John Ray, the ninth edition of 1727. In this book Ray developed Natural Theology for an English audience. He argues that the proof of God is...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct fossil giant salamander (Andrias sheuchzeri), first named as Homo diluvii testis (evidence of a diluvian human or witness of the flood) from the work of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of mythical hydra with hand colouring by J. Chapman 1806 after engraving by Seba in his 'Treasury of Natural History' (1734). In 1735 a young Linnaeus visited Hamburg. While ther...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrationg of great white shark jaw with fossil shark teeth, copperplate after Nicolas Steno 1667. Steno produced a book 'Head of a shark dissected' from his dissection of a great white shark caugh...

Paul D Stewart / 18th Century engraving with contemporary handcolouring showing coral, squid and a nautilus shell. Such exotic objects were emblematic of any good cabinet of curiosities and held particular fascination...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration frontispiece from Thomas Burnet's 'The Sacred Theory of the Earth' 1684, the most popular geological work of the 17th century. Christ stands aside the full cycle of creation with the epit...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration with later hand colouring from Thomas Burnet's 'The Sacred Theory of the Earth' 1684. In it he postulates how the 'perfect' featureless earth of the creation is transformed by waters unle...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration with later hand colouring from Thomas Burnet's 'The Sacred Theory of the Earth' 1684. In it he postulates how the 'perfect' featureless earth of the creation is transformed by waters unle...