Digital plants,16th century artwork. These digital (hand-like) plants include orchis maculata and colchicum autumnale. Artwork from the book Phytognomonica (Naples,1588) by the Italian scholar and polymath Giambattista della Porta (circa 1535-1615). The book is about della Porta's theory of the doctrine of signatures,where plants bore a physical resemblance either to a celestial body,or to the body part which they were able to cure | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Middle Temple Library |
Taille de l’image : | 4466 px × 3898 px |
Model Release : | Non requis |
Property Release : | Non requis |
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