Natural history. 15th-century illustration showing spiders, insects (including flies, locusts, bees, ants, and butterflies), plants, worms and snails.

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Natural history. 15th-century illustration showing spiders, insects (including flies, locusts, bees, ants, and butterflies), plants, worms and snails. Artwork from 'Buch der Natur' (Book of Nature, 1481) by Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374), a translation and adaptation of the 13th-century 'De natura rerum' by Thomas de Cantimpre.

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Size: 2459px × 3626px
Photo credit: © LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, RARE BOOK AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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