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Platypus Anatomy (shaw) Poster
by Science Photo Library
$44.56
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Platypus Anatomy (shaw) poster by Science Photo Library. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Platypus anatomy. Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), as described in 1799 by British naturalist George Shaw (1751-1813). This artwork... more
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Platypus anatomy. Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), as described in 1799 by British naturalist George Shaw (1751-1813). This artwork is by Frederick Polydore Nodder (1770-1800) and appeared in volume 10 of Shaw's 'The Naturalist's Miscellany'. This was the first formal description of a creature described as extraordinary and originally suspected of being a fake pastiche of different animals. The beak seemed too strange to be true and Shaw wrote in the accompanying text 'at first view it naturally excites the idea of some deceptive preparation by artificial means [...] (it is only with) the most minute and rigid imagination that we can persuade ourselves of its being the real beak or snout of a quadruped'. The even more extraordinary additional revelation that this animal laid eggs would wait for Everard Home's dissections of 1802.
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