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  2. William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

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    The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...

  3. Botanical illustration - Wikipedia

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    The drawings accompanying his text resemble herbarium specimens, emphasizing flower and fruit details. Wu Qijun [ de ] (1789-1847)'s Illustrated Catalogues of Plants (1848) also relied on direct observation of plants in nature.

  4. Mausoleum of Omar Khayyám - Wikipedia

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    Seyhoun fulfilled this wish by creating a pathway from the garden to Khayyam's tomb, allowing flowers to fall on it annually. He also paid homage to Khayyam's geometric work with a star-shaped feature on the tomb, opening to the sky above Nishapur and symbolizing the celestial expanse. [ 5 ]

  5. Drafter - Wikipedia

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    Traditional drafter at work A drafter in Portugal in the 1970s, using a drafting machine. A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics ...

  6. Wikipedia : Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers

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  7. Engineering drawing - Wikipedia

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    The assembly drawing gives the drawing numbers of the subsequent detailed components, quantities required, construction materials and possibly 3D images that can be used to locate individual items. Although mostly consisting of pictographic representations, abbreviations and symbols are used for brevity and additional textual explanations may ...

  8. Oblique projection - Wikipedia

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    Oblique projection is a simple type of technical drawing of graphical projection used for producing two-dimensional (2D) images of three-dimensional (3D) objects. The objects are not in perspective and so do not correspond to any view of an object that can be obtained in practice, but the technique yields somewhat convincing and useful results.

  9. Omar Khayyam - Wikipedia

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    Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī [1] [3] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) (Persian: غیاث الدین ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابورﻯ), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), [a] was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.