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== Free of rights sources == | == Free of rights sources == | ||
Many illustrations are available on Wikipedia Commons. | Many illustrations are available on Wikipedia Commons. Illustrations from historical books 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. | 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. | ||
More images are to be found in other categories, but their classification is quite confusing. Here are some of them: | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Botany Botany]. Many subcategories. | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fruit edible fruits] | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fruits botanical fruits] | |||
* 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] | ||
Revision as of 14:58, 6 April 2012
Free of rights sources
Many illustrations are available on Wikipedia Commons. Illustrations from historical books 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.
More images are to be found in other categories, but their classification is quite confusing. Here are some of them:
- Botany. Many subcategories.
- edible fruits
- botanical fruits
- 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).
- 115 images from Joseph Paxton, Flower Garden (1850).