Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science: With Over 5,500 Illustrations

Book Overview

Based on J. G. Heck's Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon, published in German in the nineteenth century, the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art was a monumental six-volume compilation of illustrations and information, covering an enormous range of subjects, from architecture to zoology. Among its most remarkable features were the thousands of superb steel engravings, comprising one of the most extensive pictorial archives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486282910
• ISBN13: 9780486282916
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

A valuable resource

This book was a valuable resource when I designed a Biology-themed project. The images are well-rendered and the book scans well enough. The variety is good enough for the price, but for less desirable subjects such as fungi, ferns, and even some aspects of meteorology the depiction leaves something to be desired. However, (especially) for dicots, astronomy, anthropology, and ornithology, the drawings are superb.