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FLO4574429: Proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus 1,2, king colobus, Colobus polykomos 3, brown-mantled tamarin, Saguinus fuscicollis 4, red-handed howler, Alouatta belzebul 5, pure-faced langur, Trachypithecus vetulus, endangered 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574440: Ancient ships: Phoenician merchant ship 1, ancient warship 2, and the floating castle of King Hiero of Syracuse, Sicily, designed by Archimedes 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574470: Snakewood, Strychnos colubrina 1, and sebesten, Cordia sebestana 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574517: View of the isle of Staffa 1, and basalt columns at the entrance to Fingal's cave 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574571: Wild dog of Cayenne, Canis thoris 1, great dog-wolf 2, Borzoi male 3 and female 4, wolf-dog hybrid male 5 and female 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4574612: Jupiter Red Spot - Jupiter: the Great Red Spot - The Jupiter Red Spot seen by the Voyager 1 probe in March 1979. The red spot of Jupiter is a gigantic tempete measuring nearly 25,000 km in diameter, about twice the diameter of the Earth. As Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter, it captured this photo of the Great Red Spot in march 1979. The Great Red Spot is an anti - cyclonic (high - pressure) storm on Jupiter that can be likened to the worst hurricanes on Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4574650: Io seen by the probe Voyager 1 - Region of the south pole - At the bottom of the image Haemus Mons, not far from the southern pole of Io, is one of the largest mountains in the solar system. It extends 200 km in diameter and is more than 10 000m; it is completely covered with sulfur frost. Mosaic of images obtained by the Voyager 1 probe / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574663: Rhinoceros viper, Bitis nasicornis 1, and carpet python, Morelia spilota 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574664: Cinereous vulture, Aegypius monachus 1, Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus 2, bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus 3, Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura 4, secretary bird, Sagittarius serpentarius 5, and Maltese vulture, Vultur fuscus (Neophron percnopterus) 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574679: Bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara 1, and scurvygrass, Cochlearia officinalis 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574726: Swiss pine or arolla pine, Pinus cembra 1, branch with flower a, cone b, nut c, and stone pine, Pinus pinea 2, branch a, cone b. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4574751: Planisphere de Io - False colors - Planisphere of 11,420 km wide made from images obtained by the Galileo probe between July and September 1996 has distances between 485,000 and 2,243,000 kilometres from the satellite. The overlaid grid corresponds to longitude and latitude intervals of 30 degrees / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574810: Nile monitor lizard (Nile varan), Varanus niloticus 1, common basilisk (basil commun), Basiliscus basiliscus 2, and flying lizard (common flying dragon), Draco volans 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. / Bridgeman Images