{"product_id":"the-art-of-biodiversity","title":"The Art of Biodiversity","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn account of key chapters in the history of scientific nature art, with more than 330 color illustrations of surpassing beauty. This is a story about art that’s not in the art history books, and a story about science that’s missing from histories of science. Here, such giants as Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier, Humboldt, and Darwin cross paths with superb artists, including Merian, Redouté, Audubon, and Haeckel, among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis art first appeared in vividly illustrated books that, in a world without photography or film, offered readers a vastly expanded vision of nature. The Art of Biodiversity introduces the reader to the extraordinary men and women who created these books. They focused exquisite artistic skills on nature, traded in exotic seashells and butterflies, collected bird and monkey specimens in tropical rainforests, dredged strange invertebrates from the depths of the ocean, peered through magnifying lenses at insects, and dug prehistoric bones out of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eHardback, 400 pages\u003cbr\u003eColour illustrations throughout\u003cbr\u003emeasures 23.5 x 15.9cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55577968902529,"sku":"C2228","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0803\/1725\/files\/theartofbiodiversity.jpg?v=1783609598","url":"https:\/\/www.presentindicative.com\/products\/the-art-of-biodiversity","provider":"Present Indicative","version":"1.0","type":"link"}