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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, mezzotint portrait print

1731

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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733) was a Swiss traveller naturalist and geologist. His best known scientific works are his paleontological 'Lithographia Helvetica' (1726) and his 'Physica Sacra', a massively scientifically illustrated Biblical History. In both books he states fossils as evidences of the Biblical flood." 320mm by 210mm (platemark)

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