Botanical and scientific illustration share many common themes - the meticulous observation, the crucial composition, the precision of rendering and the accuracy of colour are all intrinsic to this niche genre of art. In this beautiful book, Sarah Jane Humphrey explains the techniques of the botanical artist but also introduces ideas for scientific illustration, so that the illustrator has a fu…
Buku ini menjadi saksi perjuangan dan semangat sivitas Kebun Raya “Eka Karya” Bali dan beberapa pihak dalam sejarah pembangunan dan pendewasaan kebun raya tercinta, kreasi pertama putra bangsa Indonesia. Enam puluh tahun yang lalu, tepatnya 15 Juli 1959, Kebun Raya “Eka Karya” Bali diresmikan oleh Direktur Lembaga Pusat Penyelidikan Alam saat itu, Prof. Ir. Kusnoto Setyodiwiryo. Temukan…
In Betty Smith’s description of the tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), also known as the “ghetto palm,” the tree is contrasted with the memory of a school poem that evoked the “forest primeval” with its “murmuring pines and hemlocks.” For Smith, writing in the early 1940s, the presence of this tree was a marker, or even harbinger, of neighbourhood decline. The tree of heaven se…