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Imagining the Dinosaurs: How art, science combined to bring a lost world to life
How art and science combined to bring a lost world to life
In a 1763 book, Richard Brookes reproduced Plot’s illustration and captioned it “Scrotum Humanum” — probably not because he thought that he really had a specimen of fossilized human genitalia but just because he couldn’t resist making note of the similarity. The dinner, which was luxurious and elegantly served, being ended, the usual routine of loyal toasts were duly given and responded to – allusion being gracefully made by Mr. Francis Fuller, Managing Director, to the great interest evinced and approbation expressed by H.M. the Queen and H.R.H. They’re green because that’s the color of most reptiles today, and Hawkins simply guessed on the shape of body parts for which there were no fossil records (his hylaeosaurus gazes away from the paths in the park because he didn’t know what its face would have looked like).
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