Oval portrait of Reverend Dr. Stephen Hales, FRS, natural philosopher, botanist, chemist and inventor, author of Vegetable Staticks, 1677-1761. Engraving by William Hopwood after a portrait by Thomas Hudson, RA. Garden landscape with his inventions using a bell jar and pneumatic trough for scientific experiments on plant physiology and transpiration in plants. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dr. Robert John Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1800.

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