A page from the Vienna manuscript of Zapothec origin Finish:Single Plate 4 from the paper

Plate 4 from the paper 'On the elasticity of the lungs'

XIX from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

Bread Street Hill and St Nicholas Olave Churchyard

The author describes the insect within the text: 'This beautiful Locust is a native of New Holland

and is regarded as one of the greatest British monarchs

A page from the Vienna manuscript of Zapothec origin Finish:Single Plate 4 from the paperA page from the Vienna manuscript of Zapotec origin, 1901. The Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre Columbian culture that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico from approximately 500 BC. A print from The World's History, A Survey of Man's Record, by Dr HF Helmolt, Volume I, William Heinemann, London, 1901.