The Beauty of the Overlooked

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Medusa from A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast by Philip Henry Gosse, 1853.

Philip Henry Gosse’s Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations of Coastal Creatures and Reflections on the Delicate Kinship of Life

“These objects are, it is true, among the humblest of creatures that are endowed with organic life… Here we catch the first kindling of that spark, which glows into so noble a flame in the Aristotles, the Newtons, and the Miltons of our heaven-gazing race.”

  1. ​The World of the Sea​
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