Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science (Dover Pictorial Archive, Vol. 3)
J. G. Heck
Language: English
Pages: 208
ISBN: 0486282910
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Based on J. G. Heck's Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon, published in German in the nineteenth century, the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art was a monumental six-volume compilation of illustrations and information, covering an enormous range of subjects, from architecture to zoology. Among its most remarkable features were the thousands of superb steel engravings, comprising one of the most extensive pictorial archives ever published in a single work.
The present book, one of three separate and independent volumes based on the rare original American edition of 1851, is devoted to nature and science. Over 170 beautifully reproduced plates contain thousands of illustrations depicting an extraordinary array of subjects: mathematical and geometrical problems; surveying instruments, astronomical maps, and instruments; planetary systems according to Ptolemy, the Egyptians, Copernicus, and others; positions of the planets; botanical illutrations of scores of plants — including seed pods, fruits, and other parts; physical and meteorological illustration demonstrating many laws and principles; numerous types of physical and chemical apparatus; animals, minerals, fossils, geological formations; human anatomy; and many other images. A descriptive table of contents is keyed to numbered illustrations on each plate.
Artists, illustrators, and anyone in need of precisely rendered, royalty-free science or nature illustrations will welcome this practically inexhaustible wealth of immediately usable art.
black pepper Figs. 7. Castanea vesca, chestnut Figs. 8. Quercus tinctoria, black oak Figs. 9. Liquidambar styraciflua, sweet gum Figs. 10. Taxus baccata, European yew Figs. 11. Juniperus communis, common juniper Figs. 12. Cupressus sempervirens, European cypress Figs. 13. Larix cedrus, European cedar PLATE 73. Fig. 1. Botanical chart Figs. 2. Chart of the Chinese and Indian cotton region Figs. 3. Chart of the American region of the sugar cane, coffee, &c. Figs. 4. Chart of the
77. Fulgoria laternaria Figs. 78. Œdipoda stridula Figs. 79. Œdipoda cærulescens Figs. 80. Œdipoda migratoria Figs. 81. Acridium cristatum Figs. 82—85. Locustidæ Figs. 86—88. Gryllidæ Figs. 89. Phyllium siccifolium Figs. 90. Mantis religiosa Figs. 91. Empusa gongylodes Figs. 92. Cyphocrana gigas Figs. 93. Blatta orientalis PLATE 81. Upper Division. Fig. 1—3. Forficulidæ. Figs. 4—6. Brachelytra Figs. 7. Meloë proscarabæus Figs. 8. Lytta vesicatoria Figs. 9. Blaps mortisaga Figs.
railroads PLATE 143. Figs. 1–29. Illustrating the construction of railroads Figs. 30. The Leipsic station of the Saxon and Bavarian railroad PLATE 144. Figs. 1–6. Illustrating the motive power on railroads Figs. 7–14. Illustrating the construction of inclined planes PLATE 145. Figs. 1–8. Illustrating Stephenson’s locomotive with variable expansion Figs. 9–28. Illustrating the construction of tenders and railroad cars Figs. 29. Interior of the Duke of Brunswick’s car on the Brunswick
155. Figs. 1–18. Illustrating the construction of vertical water-wheels Figs. 19–29. Illustrating the construction of horizontal water-wheels PLATE 156. Figs. 1–15. Illustrating the construction of an American grinding-mill PLATE 157. Figs. 1, 2. Cotton gin Figs. 3–5a. Wolf or willow Figs. 6. Spreading machine Figs. 7. Lap-machine Figs. 8–16. Carders and carding machines Figs. 17–20. Drawing frame Figs. 21–24. Roving frame PLATE 158. Figs. 1–7. Danforth’s tube roving-frame Figs.
See 1 Figs. 7, 20. Strontianite Figs. 8–10. See 1 Figs. 11. Thorns coated with salt Figs. 12. Gypsum Figs. 13. See 1 Figs. 14. Spathic iron Figs. 15. Wolfram Figs. 16, 24, 25. Alum Figs. 17. Sulphate of soda Figs. 18. Sulphate of ammonia Figs. 19, 34, 35. Copperas Figs. 20. See 7 Figs. 21. White lead ore Figs. 22. Yellow lead ore Figs. 23. Sulphate of zinc Figs. 24, 25. See 16 Figs. 26, 36, 41, 43, 47, 48. Saltpetre Figs. 27. Green vitriol Figs. 28. Sulphate of potassa Figs.