19世纪《博物学家图书馆》1300幅精美插画经AI修复后上线

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如今，如果你想了解我们周围的任何植物或动物，只需在网上查找即可。获取足够的知识后，你可以决定是否要走出家门，去自然环境中（或模拟的环境中）亲自观察你感兴趣的对象。在维多利亚时代，情况则有所不同。理想情况下，你会在一个拥有完整《自然学者图书馆》系列的家庭中长大，或者至少能接触到一个机构，这套系列超过40卷，涵盖从鸟类、蜜蜂到四足动物和袋类动物的各种内容。这些书籍以相对较小的版式印刷，每册六先令，使自然学家的智慧成果比以往更容易被普通人获取。

这些书虽然提供了大量的信息性文本，包括当时多位著名自然学家的回忆录，但其直接吸引人的地方更多在于其华丽的插图，彩色的物种样本从黑白的栖息地中跃然而出。这1300多幅彩色图版，是19世纪中期任何类似规模出版物中最精美的之一，为设计师尼古拉斯·鲁热（Nicholas Rougeux：https://www.c82.net/）提供了一个极具吸引力的项目，我们之前已在Open Culture上介绍过他的作品。

已经恢复并创建了欧几里得《几何原本》的数字版本：https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/a-beautifully-designed-edition-of-euclids-elements.html，皮埃尔-约瑟夫·雷杜特的《玫瑰与百合》Les Roses and Les Lilacées：https://www.openculture.com/?p=1120828，伊丽莎白·特温宁的《植物自然分类插图》Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants：https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/interactive-illustrations-of-the-natural-orders-of-plants.html，以及丹尼尔·伯克利·厄普代克的《印刷字体》Printing Types：https://www.openculture.com/?p=1124807 等其他书籍，他现在已经在线上发布了《自然主义者图书馆》的完整复刻版：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/ — 同时，像往常一样，也提供了一篇关于费时的修复和数字再创作过程的博客文章：https://www.c82.net/blog/making-of-naturalists-library。

这一次，Rougeux 包括了一个关于他使用人工智能的部分，实际上正是人工智能最初将《自然主义者图书馆》引起了他的注意。不仅人工智能工具帮助他发掘所需资源并填补视觉空白，在他为印刷版头脑风暴封面概念时，这些工具也很有用。虽然 Rougeux 的修复主要是一个网站，供所有人免费探索：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/，你也可以购买自己的一本精美的大开本实体书《自然主义者图书馆图版》Plates of the Naturalist’s Library：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/shop/book，售价为 295.11 美元。

更经济实惠的是海报系列：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/shop，他用相同的插图制作，每一张海报都能一目了然地展示这些大小不一的生物类别。原本的《自然主义者图书馆》激励了一代又一代人致力于理解自然世界；这些新版本，无论是印刷版、在线版：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/，还是挂在墙上的，都无疑将鼓励未来几代新兴自然主义者的热情。在此访问《自然主义者图书馆》的复刻版：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/。

一份奢华插图的19世纪所有蜂鸟物种目录已被修复并上线：https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/a-lavishly-illustrated-catalog-of-all-hummingbird-species-known-in-the-19th-century-gets-restored-put-online.html

请欣赏伊丽莎白·特温宁的植物自然分类插图（1868）的互动在线版：https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/interactive-illustrations-of-the-natural-orders-of-plants.html

恩斯特·海克尔的壮丽动植物图：影响欧洲新艺术运动的美丽科学插图（1889）：https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/ernst-haeckels-sublime-drawings-of-flora-1889.html

生物多样性遗产图书馆上线了30万幅奇妙的自然插图：https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/300000-wondrous-nature-illustrations-by-the-biodiversity-heritage-library.html

探索一个包含2,200幅历史野生动物插图（1916–1965）的新档案：由野生动物保护协会提供：https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/explore-a-new-archive-of-2200-historical-wildlife-illustrations.html

探索互动在线版的、200年历史的美丽插图英国及异国矿物学：https://www.openculture.com/2020/08/online-version-of-the-british-exotic-mineralogy.html

科林，常驻首尔： Colin博客：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ M：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ a：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ rshall：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ 他撰写并播报有关城市、语言和文化的内容。他是通讯《城市书籍》的作者：https://colinmarshall.substack.com/ 以及以下书籍的作者：한국 요약 금지：https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000212263515（不总结韩国）和Korean Newtro：https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Newtro-Where-Youth-Tradition/dp/156591533X。关注他在曾用名为推特的社交网络上的账号 @colinm：https://twitter.com/#%21/colinmarshall a：https://twitter.com/#%21/colinmarshall rshall：https://twitter.com/#%21/colinmarshall。

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Today, if you want to know about any of the flo­ra or fau­na that sur­round us, you have only to look it up online. After you get your fill of knowl­edge, you can decide whether or not you want to ven­ture out into the world and see your object of inter­est in its nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment (or a con­trolled sim­u­la­tion there­of). In the Vic­to­ri­an era, things worked a bit dif­fer­ent­ly. Ide­al­ly, you’d have grown up in a house­hold, or at least had access to an insti­tu­tion, with the com­plete set of The Nat­u­ral­ist’s Library , a series of more than 40 vol­umes on every­thing from the birds and the bees to the quadrupeds and the mar­su­pi­alia. Print­ed in a rel­a­tive­ly small for­mat and priced at six shillings each, they brought the intel­lec­tu­al fruits of the nat­u­ral­ist’s enter­prise clos­er to the reach of the every­man than ever before.

While these books offered a good deal of infor­ma­tive text, includ­ing mem­oirs from var­i­ous famous nat­u­ral­ists of the time, their imme­di­ate attrac­tion had more to do with their glo­ri­ous illus­tra­tions, in which col­ored exam­ples of each species popped right out of its black-and-white habi­tat. These more than 1,300 col­or plates, some of the finest that could be seen in any pub­li­ca­tion of sim­i­lar scale in the mid-nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, pre­sent­ed an attrac­tive project to the design­er Nicholas Rougeux：https://www.c82.net/, whose work we’ve pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured here on Open Cul­ture.

Hav­ing already restored and cre­at­ed dig­i­tal ver­sions of Euclid­’s Ele­ments ：https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/a-beautifully-designed-edition-of-euclids-elements.html, Pierre-Joseph Red­outé’s Les Ros­es and Les Lil­i­acées ：https://www.openculture.com/?p=1120828, Eliz­a­beth Twin­ing’s Illus­tra­tions of the Nat­ur­al Orders of Plants ：https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/interactive-illustrations-of-the-natural-orders-of-plants.html, and Daniel Berke­ley Updike’s Print­ing Types ：https://www.openculture.com/?p=1124807, among oth­er books, he’s now put online a com­plete repro­duc­tion of the Nat­u­ral­ist’s Library ：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/ — with, as usu­al, a blog post about the painstak­ing restora­tion and dig­i­tal re-cre­ation process：https://www.c82.net/blog/making-of-naturalists-library.

This time, Rougeux has includ­ed a sec­tion about his use of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, which actu­al­ly did its part to bring The Nat­u­ral­ist’s Library to his atten­tion in the first place. Not only did AI tools then help him unearth need­ed sources and fill in visu­al gaps, they also came in handy when he was brain­storm­ing cov­er con­cepts for a print­ed ver­sion. Though Rougeux’s restora­tion is pri­mar­i­ly a web site, free to all to explore：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/, you can also buy your own hand­some, large-for­mat phys­i­cal copy of Plates of the Nat­u­ral­ist’s Library ：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/shop/book for $295.11 USD.

Eas­i­er on the wal­let is the series of posters：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/shop he’s made with the same illus­tra­tions, each of which presents one of these cat­e­gories of crea­tures great or small at a glance. The orig­i­nal Nat­u­ral­ist’s Library inspired gen­er­a­tions to ded­i­cate them­selves to under­stand­ing the nat­ur­al world; these new ver­sions, whether in print, online：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/, or on the wall, will no doubt encour­age the enthu­si­asm of more than a few bud­ding nat­u­ral­ists in the gen­er­a­tions to come. Vis­it the repro­duc­tion of the Nat­u­ral­ist’s Library ：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/ here：https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/.

A Lav­ish­ly Illus­trat­ed Cat­a­log of All Hum­ming­bird Species Known in the 19th Cen­tu­ry Gets Restored & Put Online：https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/a-lavishly-illustrated-catalog-of-all-hummingbird-species-known-in-the-19th-century-gets-restored-put-online.html

Behold an Inter­ac­tive Online Edi­tion of Eliz­a­beth Twining’s Illus­tra­tions of the Nat­ur­al Orders of Plants (1868)：https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/interactive-illustrations-of-the-natural-orders-of-plants.html

Ernst Haeckel’s Sub­lime Draw­ings of Flo­ra & Fau­na: The Beau­ti­ful Sci­en­tif­ic Draw­ings That Influ­enced Europe’s Art Nou­veau Move­ment (1889)：https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/ernst-haeckels-sublime-drawings-of-flora-1889.html

300,000 Won­drous Nature Illus­tra­tions Put Online by The Bio­di­ver­si­ty Her­itage Library：https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/300000-wondrous-nature-illustrations-by-the-biodiversity-heritage-library.html

Explore a New Archive of 2,200 His­tor­i­cal Wildlife Illus­tra­tions (1916–1965): Cour­tesy of The Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety：https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/explore-a-new-archive-of-2200-historical-wildlife-illustrations.html

Explore an Inter­ac­tive, Online Ver­sion of the Beau­ti­ful­ly Illus­trat­ed, 200-Year-Old British & Exot­ic Min­er­al­o­gy ：https://www.openculture.com/2020/08/online-version-of-the-british-exotic-mineralogy.html

Based in Seoul, Col­in：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ M：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ a：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ rshall：http://blog.colinmarshall.org/ writes and broad­cas ts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. He’s the author of the newslet­ter Books on Cities：https://colinmarshall.substack.com/ as well as the books 한국 요약 금지：https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000212263515 (No Sum­ma­riz­ing Korea) and Kore­an Newtro：https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Newtro-Where-Youth-Tradition/dp/156591533X . Fol­low him on the social net­work for­mer­ly known as Twit­ter at @colinm：https://twitter.com/#%21/colinmarshall a：https://twitter.com/#%21/colinmarshall rshall：https://twitter.com/#%21/colinmarshall.

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