All illustrations: Louis Renard / RawPixel

These Fantastical 300-Year-Old Marine Life Drawings Will Blow Your Goggles Off

A stunningly surreal, less than scientific, and spiritually satisfying depiction of life under the sea

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First published in 1719, these drawings by publisher Louis Renard were part of his two-volume book Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, the earliest known publication

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