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Natural Science Illustration artists teach us how to capture the wonders. ... Connecticut man's check fraud scheme brought in more than $350,000, police say.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Newcastle will be offering a free online natural history illustration course beginning on 14 August. The introductory course will run for six weeks, with three to six hours of ...
LINDA MOWBRAY’S SPECTACULAR IMAGES of the natural world have been recognised with the 2012 Australian Geographic Natural History Illustration prize. The 42-year-old Newcastle University student says ...
MAIDENHEAD, England—A small team of scientists working for De Beers is scrambling to stave off a looming threat that could tarnish the luster of natural-mined diamonds: high-quality man-made stones.
There’s an appealing aesthetic to old-fashioned natural science illustrations, so when Katrina McHugh was looking for a subject for the 100 Day Project, she looked to a set of vintage ...
Take a look at original hand-coloured engravings by Dutch painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté and other masters of 18th- and 19th-century natural history illustration on an Omotesando back street.
Man has a hand in natural disasters. ... Well, it’s a tragic illustration that natural disasters are all disaster, and only part natural. Economic growth creates roofs that don’t blow away, ...
A 56-year-old man has lost his life after he was brutally attacked by a crocodile at a game reserve in Hluhluwe yesterday ...
What our most famous evolutionary cartoon gets wrong It’s hardly accurate — so 150 years later, why does the ‘monkey to man’ illustration still hold us spellbound?
Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their deleterious impact on institutional quality. We show this result to be very robust. The ...
Those two factors led to the rise of a so-called "Golden Age of Illustration." One of the leading figures of this age was the English artist Arthur Rackham, who was born 150 years ago on this day ...
Take a look at hand-coloured engravings featuring 19th-century camellia flowers and depictions of rare monkeys from Johann Schreber's 1775 series 'Fantastic Bea ...