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Olive penjing against a white wall.

Penjing

“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng

Color illustration of a plant with large green leaves and small flowers. Above the plant is a close up of a brown cylinder.

A Curious Herbal

In creating and publishing her scientific illustrations, Blackwell made important contributions to the medical field.

Color illustration of a plant with narrow palmate green leaves. Some of the leaves have holes in the center or rips near at the margin. The plant has a moth resting on a leaf and a moth flying near the stem. The plant has a larva resting on a stem and a cocoon attached to a stem. A large black yellow and red larva rests on a leaf. A cocoon rests on the stem and on a swollen root. A moth flies near the plant. A snake coils around the plant.

Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname

Merian discovered and shared new scientific information about insects, changing the way Europeans thought about entomology and ecology

Printed illustration of a flea.

Micrographia

Discovering a Hidden Universe and Creating Science

Lamp with rounded metal decorative leaves at the base and eighteen orange glass bulb covers in the shape of lily flowers.

Tiffany Glass

Tiffany’s Glassworks: Light, Color, Change, and Innovation

Four illustrations of flowers in a grid.

Botanical Art

Learn about botanical art and create your own artwork.

Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.

Explore Plant Adaptations in Your Community!

Take a walk through your neighborhood, local park, or anywhere else where plants grow. What adaptations do you observe?

Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.

Create a Herbarium Specimen

Preserve information about a particular plant for future generations.

A skeleton and elephant viewed from the front. The background is of trees, shrubs, and rocks.

Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body

This collaborative effort between an anatomist and an artist revolutionized people’s understanding of the human body.

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