Kevin Schafer / Four people lying on ground photographing Arctic / Scheuchzer's cotton grass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) Edgeoya (Edge Island) Svalbard, Norway 2010

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Scheuchzer's bellflower (Campanula scheuchzeri) covered in water droplets, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Scheuchzer's bellflower (Campanula scheuchzeri) flower, Liechtenstein, July 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Scheuchzer's bellflower (Campanula scheuchzeri) close-up of flower, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Erlend Haarberg / Scheuchzer's cottongrass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) flowering, Finland, July

Alex Hyde / Scheuchzer's bellflower (Campanula scheuchzeri) in Austrian Alps, 2900 metres above sea level, August.

Eric Baccega / White cotton grass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) flowering on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, August 2010

Guy Edwardes / Scheuchzer's Cotton Grass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) flowering and lake, Kleifarvatn, near Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2009.

Guy Edwardes / Cotton Grass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) flowering near lake, Landmannalauger Highlands, Iceland June 2009.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Scheuchzer's bellflower (Campanula scheuchzeri) growing on limestone on Mt Terminillo, Apennines, Lazio, Italy

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Scheuchzer's bellflower (Campanula scheuchzeri) close-up of flower, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Kerstin Hinze / Scheuchzer's Cotton Grass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri), Lake Lago Bianco with Cambrena-Glacier in background, Bernina Valley, Grisons, Switzerland

Paul D Stewart / 1731 illustration from Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) folio copper engraving of the fifth day of creation (with later hand colouring) drawn by a team of engravers unde...

Paul D Stewart / Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (born August 2nd 1672 - died June 23rd 1733). Swiss traveller naturalist and geologist. Contemporary Folio size Portrait copper engraving at 59 years old (1731) from Physica Sa...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) the fourth day of creation folio copper engraving (with later hand colouring) drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of J...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) loading the Ark, folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748). The...

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 / 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...

Frederique Olivier / Cottongrass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) stem moving in the wind amogst other cottongrass and in a bog, Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland, August.

Frederique Olivier / Cottongrass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland, August.