Visual display of not very quantitative information

Louis Agassiz's Principles of Zoology

I get a lift from Bibliodyssey on a nearly daily basis. Today PK posts some extraordinary drawings on turtle embryology, but I was more struck by the fascinating information graphic from Louis Agassiz relating depth of excavation to species. If I ever have the spare time (and spare money) I could see building a wonderful collection specializing in nineteenth-century information graphics. They really knew what they were doing.

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