Great Scenes from the Bible and gravers

and gravers

In the treatment of orthogonal expansions

antler combs of the Susquehannock and Seneca Iroquois

Unabridged republication of the edition published by Wiley-Interscience

Great Scenes from the Bible and graversSwiss etcher and engraver Matthaeus Merian the Elder (to distinguish him from his son, Matthaeus Merian the Younger, a portrait and historical painter), was born in Basel in 1593. He studied in Zurich, Paris, Stuttgart, and the Netherlands, eventually settling in Frankfurt where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry, whose daughter he later married. On the death of his father in law in 1623, Merian took over the publishing house, while