Evolutionary ecologist & Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle. He/him. Also @StephenBHeard@fediscience.org
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ALT A painting. A young man (naked but artfully draped with a red cloth in just the right place) rests on a part of a tumbled stone wall, leaning on an empty suit of armour. Beside and below the armour are a cello, a lute, a trombone, an astrolabe, and a variety of other artifacts of art, music, and science. The young main has a supercilious look on his face.
ALT View across a large river with low-angle sunlight illuminating the far bank. There are some houses and small apartments among leafless trees, and the light catches them and makes them yellow-orange. A series of old bridge piers crossing the river from left to centre also catch the light. All these are also reflected in the still water. The sky is cloudy low but pale blue above. In the foreground, a 10-food edge of the river is frozen.
ALT Cover of Martin Rudwick's "The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Paleontology" - showing several rock plates of fossil fishes