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The Floral King. 119
easily be incised in wood, some people began
pointing them in copper; it went somewhat slowly
in the beginning, and the pictures became dirty;
but before the end of the seculo appeared Dodart’s
splendid figures in the documents of the French
Academy of Sciences, not to speak of others.
“Still at the beginning of this seculo, although
the figures became passable, it was thought
necessary to accumulate a great number of synonyms
every time any plant or animal was to be defined, so
that every one was compelled to acquire a great
library, and refer to all quotations, until the Natural
Historians began painting their objects with lively
colours, so that no mistakes possibly could be made.
I do not here speak of the illuminated figures of the
ancients, who with one colour made all leaves green,
or all yellow flowers equally yellow, but I point to
the insects from Surinam by Meriana, natural
objects of Seba, birds of Frichen, fishes of Catesby,
plants of Ehret, insects of Roesel, birds of Edwards,
shells of Regenfus, where the object appears as
living, as the best portrait-painter can render a
human face. Amongst all these excels Roesel in
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