Dr. Arnold Dodel-Port, was a Swiss socialist botanist, a freethinker and champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution. He was also an exquisite artist who made the plant systematics of organisms (such as the Volvox Globator) mind bendingly beautiful.

Educational plate with 2 images of disscectedpassion flower (Passiflora).

During the late 1800s, in German speaking countries, the Swiss botanist, Dr. Arnold Dodel-Port was the David Attenborough of his day. He made science popular. A huge part of his success was due to the Dodel-Port Atlas. Created in collaboration with his wife Carolina, between 1878 and 1893, he created the Dodel-Port Atlas, a series of 42 aesthetically beautiful botanical charts on plant systematics.

Professor of Botany at Zurich University, socialist freethinker & an avid supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution, Dodel-Port found time (in the middle of writing & illustrating his Atlas) to write a book in support of his friend Charles Darwin’s (sacreligious at the time) theory of evolution, the provocatively titled, “Moses or Darwin? : a school problem for all friends of truth and progress”  hit Europe’s bookshelves in 1889.

So let Mr. Dodel-Port guide your eyes around the beautifully complex, cornocopic micro-universe within plantlife.

Education plate with images of Volvox globator.
Educational plate with various images of Aspidium.
Educational plate with various images of the male Aspisium filix.
Educational plate with various images of Polytrichum gracile.
Education plate with six images of Lilium martagon, both macro and microscopic.
Education plate with five images of Peziza.
Education plate with nine images of archegonium and antheridium of Marchantia, both macro- and microscopic.
Education plate with images of Volvox minor.
Educational plate with eight images of Cydonia vulgaris.
Educational plate with four images of Marchantia polymorpha.
Educational poster with a large image of Ulothrix zonata and a number of details.
Education plate with six images of Datura stramonium.
Education plate with six images of Centaurea cyanus, all macroscopic.
Educational plate with seven images of Cuscuta glomerata, both macro and microscopic.
Education plate with four images of Cosmarium botrytis.
Education plate with ten images of Lavatera trimestris, both macro and microscopic.
Education plate with images of Narcissus poeticus.
Educational plate with eleven images of Endocarpon pusillum.
Education plate with ten images of Erythrotis beddomei.
Educational poster with one large image and a number of detail shots of Chara fragilis.
Educational plate with seven images of Cystosira barbata.
Educational plate with nine images of Taxus baccata, both macro- and microscopic.
Education plate with ten images of Elodea canadensis.
Educational plate with eight images of Lavatera trimestris, both macro- and microscopic.
Education plate with five images of Lilium martagon.
Education plate with eight images of Polysiphonia subulata.
Education plate with ten images of Pinus laricio, both macro- and microscopic.
Educational plate with eight images of Phaseolus coccineus, all macroscopic.

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