From the 'Book of Simple Medicines' by Mattheaus Platearius, 12th century, Salerno, Italy
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Garden Pool, Nebamun’s garden, Thebes, Egypt; Late 18th Dynasty, circa 1350 BCE
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Maria Sibylla Merian, Passion flower plant and flat-legged bug, c. 1701-5
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Maria Sibylla Merian, Vine branch and black grapes, with moth, caterpillar and chrysalis of gaudy sphinx, 1701-5
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Albrecht Dürer, 'Eight Studies of Wild Flowers'. Watercolor, ca. 1510-1520
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Alberto Giacometti, Fleurs, 1952. Graphite on paper
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From ’ New Horizons in Flower Arrangement' by Myra J Brooks, published 1961
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Photograph of a ‘hen and chickens’ pineapple, in a letter from Leonard Wray Jr., from Malaysia, 1892
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Robert Hooke, Eye of a Fly, from Micrographia, 1665
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Eugène Séguy, Beetles pochoir, early 1900s
Jacques Linard (French 1597–1645), Still life with shells and coral, ca. 1630
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Oh even better--it began with fruit and then the insects appeared.

