Paul D Stewart / Illustration of human Flea (Pulex irritans). 1744 August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof with copperplate art and engraving with handcolouring. From 'Der monatlich-herausgekommenen Insecten-Belustigungen E...
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Paul D Stewart / 1744 illustration of a flea by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof; copperplate art and engraving with handcolouring. From 'Der monatlich-herausgekommenen Insecten-Belustigungen Erste Sammlung' (Insect...
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Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Athanasius Kircher, Jesuit scholar 1602-1680, coloured copper engraving of the author from Mundus Subterraneus (1664). Kircher worked and published across a remarkable range of fields, and...
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Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Black Rat (Rattus rattus), from Volume 1 Conrad Gesner's 1551 Historiae Animalium (here in his Icones Animalium 1560). The black rat's fleas are believed to have carried plague...
