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Reflecting their owner's taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th an 17th centuries. Displaying rare vegetable and animal species and fossils, these cabinets were always dedicated to science and knowledge. By collecting uncommon and beautiful objects in nature, rich noblemen were able to build a microcosm expressing the diversity of God's creation.
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Table of contents
1Natural Natural Curiosities Curiosities
2The View
3Alfred Russel Wallace
4Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus (detail)
5Solanum melongena Aubergine (Solanées)
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6Plate from Basilius Besler’s Herbarium (Hortus Eystettensis), 1613.
7erroneous conclusions.
8Plate from Besler’s Herbarium
9perhaps hundreds, perhaps thousands of times: That
10I. Capsicum specie Sweet Pepper called “Tomato” (Solanaceae)
11II. Capsicum specie Pepper called “Cherry” (Solanaceae)
12I., II. Capsicum specie Red-fruited upward-facing Pepper (Solanaceae)
13Plate from Besler’s Herbarium
14all the previous changes, both of the surface of the
15I. Colocasia esculenta Taro (Araceae)
16II. Lagenaria specie Colocynth [Bitter Apple] (Cucurbitaceae)
17III. Cucurbita pepo Squash (Cucurbitaceae)
18The great increase of our knowledge within the last
19twenty years, both of the present and past history of
20The following propositions in organic geography
21Geography.
22Geology.
23Plate 324 from Audubon’s Birds of America
24Sterna forsteri, Sterna trudeaui Forster’s Tern and Trudeau’s Tern (Gulls)
25both in space and time with a pre-existing closely
26allied species.
27manifest polarity. 4) the phenomena of rudimentary
28upon each of these.
29Aves Bird Nests
30cation and arrangement of organic beings show, that
31modifications of an organ or modifications of two
32back along the parallel or divergent series, towards the
33altogether doubtful. The complicated branching of the
34such purely artificial arrangements. Their death-blow
35the facts beautifully in accordance with, and readily
36a long period, sufficient for many series of species to
37groups. The Sylviadæ of Europe and the Sylvicolidæ of
381-7 Saturniidae 8-10 Attacus atlas 11-13 Rothschildia hesperus Very large tropical moths
39the
401-6 Coleoptera 7-10 Orthoptera 1-6 Beetles 7-10 Grasshoppers and katydids
41geological period, the species of the two sides at and
42coralline action from the sea, or in which a mountain-
43epoch, the phenomena of peculiar groups or even of
44throughout nature; every class and order of animals will
451-6 Scarabaeidae 7-9 Cerambycidae 1-6 Cockchafers 7-9 Longhorn beetles
46of Africa, the Ornithopteræ of the Indian islands, the
47exist, while the vast and long-continued geological
48Shell Portrait of a Woman
49arguments against its probability.
50exactly analogous to those of geography. Closely allied
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