Sky & time
A brass sky written in calligraphy
Art and calculation inhabit the same small instrument.
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Nature
Seaweed written in blue light
A scientific specimen becomes a luminous photographic page.
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Ingenious objects
Find the octopus
A small carved scene rewards a second look.
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Nature
The hippo wearing its river
Lotus plants carry a river habitat across a blue body.
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Sky & time
A solar system for the mantelpiece
The heavens, brought indoors through ingenious making.
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Nature
The rhinoceros as engraved spectacle
An animal becomes an astonishing patterned surface.
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Ingenious objects
A shell with two historical lives
The twist is in the date: this is a reproduction with a story of its own.
Look closerSeven objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Complete images and source details accompany each discovery.