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Frontis for Gideon Mantell's popular book \Wonders of Geology\" (1838) which did much to popularise geology during victorian times. It ran to many edi
Frontis for Gideon Mantell's popular book \Wonders of Geology\" (1838) which did much to popularise geology during victorian times. It ran to many editions - the third here came just one year after the first. The frontispiece shows a coral forming organisms drawn by his daughter Ellen Maria Mantell."
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Photo credit: © PAUL D STEWART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: artwork, coral, fossil, geology, gideon, illustration, mantell, palaeontology, paleontology, populariser, public, victorian