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The Curious Case of Quentell

I go on a journey to learn about a man named Quentell, and discover unsettling things about the information landscape.

Hij is vooral bekend om zijn anatomische illustraties voor leerboeken over lichamelijke opvoeding en biologie, die veel gebruikt werden op scholen in Duitsland When I ask about just "Quentell, the illustrator of educational materials", it correctly talks about Heinrich Jung and Gottlieb von Koch, but then starts regurgitating the wrong biographical information from site X, which it mentions in its sources. These botanical and zoological wall charts were created by the publishing house Frommann & Morian in the late 19th century, and the name comes from the three educators/artists who collaborated on them: Gottlieb von Koch, Friedrich Quentell, and Heinrich Jung.

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