{"id":957,"date":"2020-11-28T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=957"},"modified":"2020-11-28T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T20:53:08","slug":"art-science-citrus-botanical-illustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/11\/28\/art-science-citrus-botanical-illustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Art\/Science: Citrus Botanical Illustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a reminder that many citrus fruit used to have insanely thick peels, the way some pomelos do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2020\/nov\/28\/an-early-modern-ode-to-citrus-fruit-in-pictures\">An early-modern ode to citrus fruit &#8211; in pictures<\/a><\/h4><p>Johann Christoph Volkamer was a 17th -century Nuremberg silk merchant with passion for gardening that defined his life. He was obsessed with citrus fruit at a time when the genus was largely unknown in northern Europe. In 1708, he commissioned 256 plates of 170 varieties of the fruit &#8211; images collected in a new book by Prof Iris Lauterbach called JC Volkamer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a reminder that many citrus fruit used to have insanely thick peels, the way some pomelos do: An early-modern ode to citrus fruit &#8211; in pictures Johann Christoph Volkamer was a 17th -century Nuremberg silk merchant with passion for gardening that defined his life. He was obsessed with citrus fruit at a time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/11\/28\/art-science-citrus-botanical-illustrations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art\/Science: Citrus Botanical Illustrations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-science","tag-botany","tag-scientific-illustration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}