Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic mb-code SF37879 Marine zoological study of the

Marine zoological study of the Clubhook squid (Onychoteuthe bergii)

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Design for Blackfriars Bridge

Engraving of Tycho Brahe's bipartite arc for measuring small angular distances of stars ('Arcus bipartitus minoribus siderum distantiis inserviens')

Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic mb-code SF37879 Marine zoological study of theCharles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic, 1857. Baudelaire (1821 1867) was an influential but controversial Symbolist poet who was interested in satanism and the macabre. His book of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) (1857) is regarded as one of the classics of French literature. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860 1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris.