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Mary ANNING. (Paleontologist, born May 21, 1799) - Letter and drawing announcing the discovery of a fossil of Plesiosaurus, dated December 26th, 1823
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Opening Page Illumination from the manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi
Iran, Shiraz, Timurid Period, 15th century
c. 1444
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Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.Nehemiah Grew (26 September 1641 – 25 March 1712) was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, very famously known as the “Father of Plant Physiology”
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Women of Antiquity / Anselm Kiefer
“Another of his recurring interests has been the unfair treatment many mythologies have handed out to women, particularly strong women whose intellectual questioning has been seen as unruly and cause for demonization: for example Pandora and Lilith. In ‘Women of antiquity’, Kiefer uses attributes to identify individual characters from history: a lead book identifies Myrtis, a Greek poet blamed for competing with Pindar; a glass ‘melancholia cube’ represents Hypatia, an Alexandrian philosopher who was brutally murdered in sectarian unrest in 415 CE; and a rusting mass of razor wire signifies Candida, a Roman witch who wove vipers through her disheveled hair.”
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