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== Free of rights sources == | == Free of rights sources == | ||
Many illustrations are available on Wikipedia Commons. They can be searched at the category [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Botany_books Botany books]. To use them in Pl@ntUse, simply paste the file name in the target page. If it works, this means that the file has already been upoladed on Openmedia. If it doesn't work, you wil have to download it from Commons and upload it to Openmedia. | Many illustrations are available on Wikipedia Commons. They can be searched at the category [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Botany_books Botany books]. To use them in Pl@ntUse, simply paste the file name in the target page. If it works, this means that the file has already been upoladed on Openmedia. If it doesn't work, you wil have to download it from Commons and upload it to Openmedia. | ||
The list below gives the categories with the greatest numeber if images. Unforunately, it seems that nobody has attempted to categorize images by their scientific name. So it may be better to search in botanical pages fo Wikipedia in various languages, as authors may have chosen different images. | |||
* 247 images from [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Köhler's_Medizinal-Pflanzen?uselang=de Köhler, Medizinal Pflanzen](1883-1914). see also [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Köhler's_Medizinal-Pflanzen German Wikipedia] | * 247 images from [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Köhler's_Medizinal-Pflanzen?uselang=de Köhler, Medizinal Pflanzen](1883-1914). see also [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Köhler's_Medizinal-Pflanzen German Wikipedia] | ||
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*230 images and text from the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript Voynich manuscript], which is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book (15th or 16th century). | *230 images and text from the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript Voynich manuscript], which is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book (15th or 16th century). | ||
*more than thousand images in 147 volumes of [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Curtis's_Botanical_Magazine Curtis, The Botanical Magazine] | *more than thousand images in 147 volumes of [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Curtis's_Botanical_Magazine Curtis, The Botanical Magazine] | ||
*153 images from [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flora_Japonica Siebold & Zuccarini, Flora Japonica] (1870). | |||
Revision as of 14:19, 6 April 2012
Free of rights sources
Many illustrations are available on Wikipedia Commons. They can be searched at the category Botany books. To use them in Pl@ntUse, simply paste the file name in the target page. If it works, this means that the file has already been upoladed on Openmedia. If it doesn't work, you wil have to download it from Commons and upload it to Openmedia.
The list below gives the categories with the greatest numeber if images. Unforunately, it seems that nobody has attempted to categorize images by their scientific name. So it may be better to search in botanical pages fo Wikipedia in various languages, as authors may have chosen different images.
- 247 images from Köhler, Medizinal Pflanzen(1883-1914). see also German Wikipedia
- 119 images from the first 3 volumes of Britton & Rose, The Cactaceae (1919-1923).
- 187 black and white images from Britton & Brown, Illustrated Flora of the Northern States and Canada (1913).
- 13 images from Matthioli (various sources)
- some images from the Vienna Dioscorides.
- 200 images from Masclef, Atlas des plantes de France (1891).
- 50 images from Martius, Flora Brasiliensis (1840-1906).
- 1480 images from Blanco, Flora de Filipinas (1880-1883)
- 230 images and text from the Voynich manuscript, which is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book (15th or 16th century).
- more than thousand images in 147 volumes of Curtis, The Botanical Magazine
- 153 images from Siebold & Zuccarini, Flora Japonica (1870).