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| Guild of Natural Science Illustrators GNSI 2000 Portugal: International Conference & Annual Meeting July 30 - August 07 2000 in Évora, Lisboa and Sagres, Portugal. |
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More Than 250 Years Drawing Medusae.
2000 © Jordi Corbera1, Francesc Pagès2, and Josep Maria Gili2
1 Carrer Gran / 90. E-08310 Argentona, Spain / corbera@retemail.es
2 Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC)/ Plaça del Mar s/n. E-08039, Barcelona, Spain
ABSTRACT
Medusae are mostly pelagic animals that contain a high proportion of water (85-95%) in their bodies, thus they are delicate organisms that loose their shape out of the water. Medusae are known from the antiquity and Aristotle used the Greek word Cnidae (=nettle) to describe these organisms.
To draw jellyfish and other gelatinous organisms require good skills to recreate their natural shape if material is preserved. The advances on in situ observations and photography have improved much this task. The present degree of specialitation among scientists has created a need of professional illustrators. The increasing collaboration between scientists and drawers has resulted in excellent works, similar to those achieved by early naturalists that linked two fields of knowledge, art and natural sciences.
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