Today, a TBT in honor of cephalopodweek!
This octopus hails from Conrad Gessner’s Historia animalium (1551-1558). This engraving is a remarkably good likeness—except for the depiction of round, rather than slit-shaped, pupils—indicating the artist clearly did not draw from a live specimen.
See this and many other scientific illustrations spanning five centuries in the exhibition Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library, open now.
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