One of the "mini-project" assignments that my fish guys will be doing this summer is a look at the role played by fish in art, literature, and popular culture. More on that tomorrow. For tonight, check this out. Samuel Fallours lived, in the early 18th Century, on an island called Amdon in what today is Indonesia what is now Indonesia. He painted fish caught in the local waters, in a region known as the Coral Triangle and famed for the diversity of fish found there. His catalogue of paintings is one of the world's rarest publications on natural history, but they have been collected in a new book, Tropical Fishes of the East Indies, by Theodore Pietsch.
Fallours had either a keen sense of humor or a great aptitude for marketing. His paintings were fanciful, in some cases downright imaginary. He also spun some remarkable tales as back stories.
Read about it here at
NewScientist, and enjoy the slide show.
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